TrueOrange
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Let's see,
They are 5th best defense in the country per ESPN
38-0 right now on east Carolina
49-0 against Boston College last week
I don't care who you are, but going on 2 straight games of shutouts and putting up those kinds of points tells me they are a decent football team
Ok, so they're good because they shut out the worst team in the conference and a CUSA team?
How did it do against an even decent team...with say an offense that has struggled terribly? (I get that it's 5th in yards allowed total in 3-4 games, but it's also around 46th in rushing yards allowed per game and 39th in points allowed per game...also a big part of the reason it's 38-0 against ECU were special teams: the Hokies returned a punt for a TD, returned a blocked punt for a TD, and returned a blocked kick for a TD...but that's beside any point)
I mean, overall, I just don't think at the end of the day you can say the Big Ten West is definitely, vastly worse than the ACC Coastal, or that there's a huge chasm between the two.