Defense wins Championships.

[BreatheUT]

TCU 51 Michigan 45
Georgia 42 Ohio State 41

Now that's some defense

Ohio State would've scored 63 on a lesser defense.

 

[Stonewall83]

Well, one thing you can be sure of it; cheaters gonna cheat.

Is it really cheating? Or just exploiting the rules given to them? Because teams let the play clock expire all the time on 4th down to give the punter more room.

 

[WillisWG]

Ohio State would've scored 63 on a lesser defense.

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[Woodlawn VOL]

Defense still wins championships. It's my belief we're seeing a repetitive cycle in football. Defenses devise schemes to stifle contemporary offenses. In return, offenses evolve to exploit defense scheme's weaknesses. This repeats. Three yards and a cloud of dust (power run), could be called maybe a bulldozer offense. Enter massive DL's to create an immovable object. You've seen offenses become dominant, only to see defenses evolve as well. The single-wing, the wishbone, run and shoot, pistol, and so on. Right now it seems we are in an era of spread, and various flavors of option offenses. Eventually, defense will catch up with this too. In the end, we'll be back to another stop 'em, stomp 'em, and lock 'em up era.

You make to much sense for the crowd that doesn’t think D is ever important. The fact is Georgia’s D is very strong, while most top teams have strong offenses also makes defense no less important. There were some defensive scores in them games as well. And instead of 42-41 many teams couldn’t have stopped either one from getting into the 60’s. Football schemes are always changing. There were lots of good defense in many games this year. I have seen many spread throw all the time teams pretty much shut down at times. Mike Leach was a great coach but look at some of the scores in his games. Defense won quite a few of them. I like all aspects of football because they all factor in greatly. It seems like a small segment of fans these days some how think you can win on offense alone and that is totally wrong. As talented as Georgia’s offense is their defense has been equally as tough throughout the entire season. Football is a team fans it takes a complete team. Some years offense may lead, other years D May lead and in others it may be a combination of both. Football is always a game of schemes between offense and defense that is never ending. But at the end of the day the LOS dictates who wins the SEC year in and year out. GBO!

 

[bpalmer28]

it takes competency in both, morans.

 

[hUTch2002]

If UT had Iowa’s defense we would have been the 85 bears, but better

Iowa’s defense was so good mostly because they played teams with no offense. Ohio State put 54 on them. They’d be giving up at least 20 a game in the SEC, likely a good bit more.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

TCU 51 Michigan 45
Georgia 42 Ohio State 41

Now that's some defense

Those aren’t championship games. Oh and where has UGAs defense ranked all year? And last year? You are absolutely correct. Offense sells tickets but defense wins championships. Just ask Tom Brady.

 

[JoAllan]

On the average during the playoff era you’ve had to score about 26 points if you wanted to win……and that’s 26 points vs some good to great defenses you got to score on.

No doubt everyone wants to have a good D if they can. However gone…….LONG gone (for now) are the days when simply defense wins championships………you better have an offense and a dang good one…….or you will never even get the chance.

Just ask Iowa……heck even KY

Both great scoring D’s, both terrible scoring O’s.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

A big part of the reason UGA is on the cusp of back to back championships is because they held us to 13 points, so yes, defense wins championships.