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Originally Posted by warpaint*
The Tigers are certainly better than I thought they'd be but they've played the 13th most difficult SEC schedule tougher than only Vandy, the team they just hammered.
http://www.teamrankings.com/college-...hedule-by-team
We also have the 76th ranked defense in the country in spite of that schedule
http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/f...ent/team/22/p2
I think MU will be able to score some but won't be able to keep up w/ UGA scoring at will. If the game is close the injuries impacted the Dawgs more than I figured. I do think it will impact them greatly but I also think they one of the two best teams in the league this year and the gap between them healthy and MU is significant. |
Total yards is a really bad measure for college football.
Yards per play, yards per attempt and yards per rush are much better depictions of a defense's quality than total yards.
Scoring defense is also more important.
There are just too many factors that can falsely inflate yards to rely on it for much of anything (Variance in number of plays, playing second- and third-teams during blowouts, playing soft zone with big leads to force the other team to go on multi-play, long, and time-consuming drives, etc).
Missouri's defense actually is better than Georgia's when it comes to yards per play, yards per attempt, and yards per rush.