Something both LSU and Oregon fans are forgetting

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If we play to potential, OU will be #9 on Monday.

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Doubt Oklahoma drops their opener.

That LSU D will certainly be challenging, to say the least.

One thing LSU fan seems to have forgotten (or is ignoring) is the fact that that Auburn O was much superior to this LSU O.

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One thing LSU fan seems to have forgotten (or is ignoring) is the fact that that Auburn O was much superior to this LSU O.

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Nope, I will acknowledge that for sure. If we had an O, we beat Auburn and play you guys for the NC. I know you are kidding, but by OU he means Oregon.

I guess I just think that with Les's record, he has never lost a non conference game, outside the shite fest at Capital One bowl game and we got screwed on that one with a crappy penalty late. Have not lost an opener since 02 at Blackburgh, VA. Offense should be much better with Crowton gone, but the jury is still out on that. I know we lost PP, Drake Nevis and Kelvin Shep, but the year before we lost 2 lb's and a ton of DL's. DB's are fine, yes PP is a loss obviously, but Tyrann Mathieu is a beast and will replace him.

See Oregon vs Auburn, Ohio State, etc.

In both teams games against Auburn, the final score didn't reflect the arse kicking that took place on the field.

Yes, they took a knee on the goalline

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This. Especially ours. They controlled the whole game.

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Special teams were the only thing that kept us in that game
Auburn out-gained us 526 yards to 243

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That would be like us calling you guys ULS or some shite!

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No, it really wouldn't. LSU is called LSU. UO is called Oregon. Did you ever consider that it just isn't important enough to remember?

Score Attendance
9/4/2010 Arkansas State W 52-26
9/9/2010 @ Mississippi State W 17-14
9/18/2010 Clemson W 27-24
9/25/2010 South Carolina W 35-27
10/2/2010 Louisiana-Monroe W 52-3
10/9/2010 @ Kentucky W 37-34
10/16/2010 Arkansas W 65-43
10/23/2010 Louisiana State W 24-17
10/30/2010 @ Mississippi W 51-31
11/13/2010 Georgia W 49-31
11/26/2010 @ Alabama W 28-27
12/4/2010 South Carolina W 56-17
1/10/2011 Oregon W 22-19

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I think we have a much better DB and LB

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DBs, yes.

LBs? link?

2010 BCS Championship: A Defensive Look At The Oregon Ducks and Auburn TigersBy Russell Arch(Contributor) on January 4, 2011 2,240

Defense wins championships. It's a saying that's seemingly as old as football itself.

But to an Oregon Ducks fan, it's also been a thorn in the side for much of the team's success over the past 20 years. Simply put, Oregon is known for offense, and has a checkered past of simply outscoring teams to win games. In fact, even the 11-1 (and No.2 ranked) Ducks of 2001 overcame an 81st ranked Total Defense that year—but lost that one game by giving up 49 points (to a back-up QB) at home.

By the same token, the SEC is a truly great conference. After all, having three different teams win the last four National Championships is an astounding accomplishment. But make no mistake about it, the SEC's prolific run has had less to do with dazzling offenses, and more to do with fielding outstanding defensive teams in the BCS Championship Game.

With that said, this year's match-up between Oregon and Auburn has an ironic twist to it. You see, for once, it's actually Oregon who has the better defense...and statistically it's not even close.To start with, Oregon has the 25th ranked Total Defense (out of 120 FBS teams) and the 14th ranked Scoring Defense—as compared to Auburn's 54th ranking in Total Defense, and 54th ranked Scoring Defense.And before anyone starts with the whole "SEC" excuses, let's point out that five Pac-10 teams (50 percent) have a Total Offense in the Top 30 of all college football. Meanwhile, the SEC only has four of twelve teams (33 percent) that can boast the same thing.

Then let's add in the fact that the Pac-10 plays a full nine-game conference schedule, while the SEC plays just eight games in conference, thus allowing an added November home game with a over-matched opponent (I'm looking at you Chattanooga) to pad some defensive stats.


Steve Dykes/Getty Images With this in mind, you start to see how the SEC can have so many teams that aren't statistically as bad as they should be. After all, it explains how a 4-4 conference team like Mississippi State, with conference wins against Georgia (3-5), Mississippi (1-7), Kentucky (2-6) and Florida (4-4), can suddenly look "good" at 8-4 with OCC games against Memphis (1-11), Alcorn State (5-6), Houston (5-7), and yes, even a five-point win over UAB (4-8).

In the SEC, that's good enough for a No.21 ranking and New Year's Day shellacking of yet another underachieving team from the Big-10!

Let's also point out that because Oregon runs it's "blur" offense and happily gives away the time of possession battle (104th ranked) to the opposing team, it must defend many more plays per game, which leads to skewed "total yards per game" numbers when compared to ball-control SEC teams like Alabama and LSU.

For example, the Crimson Tide defended some 745 plays and the Tigers 757 in 12 games, meanwhile the Ducks defended well over a hundred more (878) in the same amount of contests. So while Alabama and LSU ended up with the No.6 and No.8 ranked defenses...they actually gave up more yards-per-play (4.77 and 4.78 per play) than the Ducks did (4.53). Auburn, on the other hand, gave up 5.29 yards-per-play while defending 890 plays over 13 games.

Somewhat surprisingly though, Auburn's total defense numbers are even mediocre when compared inside their own twelve-team conference. In fact, just THREE TEAMS (Tennessee: 70th, Ole Miss: 80th, and Vanderbilt: 94th) rank lower in Total Defense than the Tigers, and just FOUR have worse scoring defenses than Auburn.