re: This isn’t Les Miles’ offense going up against the self proclaimed greatest OC on turf!

With the emergence of Thomas along with Nabers , LSU is more explosive.

Half our yards came from Grambling what's your point?

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Tulane has played South Alabama, Southern Miss, and Nichols. It's almost like you don't understand how competition can impact rankings with such a small sample size. If you really think Tulane has a better defense than LSU, FSU, and Miss. State I really feel very sorry for you.

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Because you are just making statements with nothing to back them up. The only thing you are basing your thoughts on is the fact that they didn't rush for 100 yards against two top 25 defenses. If you think that Miss St is better than Tulane just because they are in the SEC, I feel sorry for you as well.

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The only thing you are basing your thoughts on

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is a comparison of PPG, where LSU and Ole Miss appear pretty even. But that's a pretty useless stat at this point in the season and by more objective stats, LSU's offense looks better. Not by a country mile, but clearly everyone agrees LSU has a better offense. If nothing else, being favored on the road proves this (unless you want to argue that the oddsmakers are counting on LSU's defense to be the difference in the game).

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is a comparison of PPG, where LSU and Ole Miss appear pretty even. But that's a pretty useless stat at this point in the season and by more objective stats, LSU's offense looks better. Not by a country mile, but clearly everyone agrees LSU has a better offense. If nothing else, being favored on the road proves this (unless you want to argue that the oddsmakers are counting on LSU's defense to be the difference in the game).

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I never said LSU didn't have a better offense. I was responding to someone who said that the two offenses were "not even close"

I’m saying the only 2 defenses with a pulse gave Ole Miss trouble. They are average at best on the ground and Jaxon Dart hovers around high 50% completion percentage and has only thrown 3tds to 2ints on around 250 yards per game if you take away the Mercer game. Compare that to Jayden Daniels who has 7tds to 2ints on about 340 yards per game if you take away his game against Grambling.

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LSU averages 42.8 PPG, Ole Miss averages 42.0 PPG. The offenses are pretty evenly matched.

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I'm confused. Is that not pretty evenly matched? Especially when one of those teams has played a significantly better defense than the other?
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Not even close. Well over half of Ole Miss's yardage comes against Mercer and Georgia Tech.

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without acknowledging that over half of our yards came against Grambling and Miss St.

There isn't some huge difference between LSU's and Ole Miss's SOS at this point.

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I did an entire reply explaining why that's not a relevant stat at this point in the season.

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I saw. I don’t think it’s totally irrelevant because how many points you score in the game is pretty important. If you want to argue that Ole Miss is more efficient on offense, those numbers would back that up. But to say they aren’t pretty evenly matched when they score the same amount of points per game is dumb. Because at the end of the day, when evaluating an offense, the single most important stat is how many points they score.

Why are we assuming Alabama is an elite defense?

because they beat Ole Missv

They gave up 34 to Texas.

Rice allowed 37
Wyoming 31
Baylor 38

Texas hasn’t scored 40 points all season.

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f you want to argue that Ole Miss is more efficient on offense, those numbers would back that up

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Now I have no idea what you think you're saying. Those numbers show precisely the opposite; that LSU's offense is more efficient - it scores more often. And to argue that PPG is somehow the final arbiter proving they're "pretty evenly matched" is what's "dumb", as you yourself have argued ad-nauseum that quality of opponents is relevant at this point in the season and skews such stats.

Further, if you take out each team's losses, LSU looks even more efficient. That is even MORE impressive when you consider that 2 of LSU's 3 wins were early blowouts, while OM needed to keep the foot on the pedal into the 4th quarter against Tulane and Ga. Tech. (i.e., OM should have been more efficient than LSU in it's 3 wins, but was actually less efficient.)

the only reason OM's PPG is near LSU's is because they have 4 more offensive possessions, which at this point of the season is 10% of the total.