re: Worst Defense to Win National Championship Recently?

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I think he most important defensive star is defensive SP+ which considers many different Things and is an advanced metric which accounts for when backups are in, when game is out of hand, etc, has bama 11 and LSU 36 I believe. Wish I had the link. People think this bama defense is bad but they are still a top 10 defense. We are getting there.

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LSU had a better defensive rating in 2018 than Bama did, which no one here would believe if you told them.

Most of the S&P+ sites don't even have numbers out yet because the sample size is too small.

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My point is that including their worst game, they were ranked as high as we were excluding our worst game (and the Vandy TDS)

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I guess it's too bad they all count then.

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Well if they all count we are much worse than that defense

and they didn't win a championship

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I wouldn't call giving up 3 PPG more "much" worse. To each their own though.

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Found an interesting article on the topic. This obviously eliminates the last 7 champions but it looks like (at the time) 2010 Auburn was the only defense ranked lower than LSU's defense is ranked now to win a national title since 1970.

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Worst Defense to Win National Championship Recently?

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Bama last year. Oh wait!

2010 auburn was 60 in yards per game.

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Here ya go

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(cynically spoken) Yea, that list is a good indication of who has the best defense.
Navy defense is better than bama?
Buffalo and Air Force defense better than LSU?
I don't think Wisconsin has a defense that can throttle LSU and I don't think they have an offense that can keep up with LSU.
I do believe LSU's defense needs to improve before the bama game. And they will. Our front 4 were 5 tenths of a second away from several sacks against Fla. And Fla. oline was getting away with a lot of holding, particularly on Shelvin. And one was while their QB was in the endzone, should have been called giving them a safety. Our DB's will get better and start covering the receivers tighter. Shelvin was a fricking beast in that game. Fla. oline couldn't keep him out the backfield. Sacks are going to start coming.

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The defense isn't elite, and it isn't even great. It is good though. The sooner you people accept that, the happier you'll all be.

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It may be good enough, but we'll have VERY tough games remaining, and I'd prefer our defense improves so we have more margin for error.

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Also, including UGA in the list of teams that are an offensive threat is laughable.

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I'm not insinuating that UGA has an elite offense, although they do have excellent skill position players. I'm just saying they're a top 12 defense, so I don't know if we'll put up 50 points on them. Maybe we will, but they're a very talented team.

And Bama has played a significantly weaker schedule than us. So has Auburn.

Following Caterpillar's link on the 3rd post, Auburn 2010 was 60th and buoyed by a Heisman-winning quarterback leading a breakout year for a spread offense.

It's certainly an anomaly--Ohio State is the next lowest in the last 10 years, at a "measly" 19th. Most teams have a top-10 defense and a very strong offense.

I think LSU can be another anomaly, especially since we're "only" 25th in total defense, which isn't a bad place to be at all. It's a step back from the elite defenses that have won titles recently, but it's still good enough if your offense lights everybody on fire and throws away the key to all the fire hydrants.