Offense/Defense Rankings

Stolen from the Rant. I'm not making comments, just pasting the data. Make of it what you will.


Total Offense rankings

4-Ole Miss (vs. #93 defense and FCS)
6-Florida (vs. #80 and #130 defense)
7-Auburn (vs. #127 defense and FCS)
12-Kentucky (vs. #129 and #122 defense)
38-Alabama (vs. #100 defense and FCS)
45-Texas A&M (vs. #108 and #26 defense)
51-Missouri (vs. #36 and #11 defense)
56-Tennessee (vs. #105 and #38 defense)
57-Arkansas (vs. #84 and #101 defense)
66-Georgia (vs. #12 and #67 defense)
77-South Carolina (vs. FCS and #94 defense)
80-Mississippi State (vs. #123 and #40 defense)
93-LSU (vs. #56 defense and FCS)
102-Vanderbilt (vs. FCS and #94 defense)


Total Defense rankings

1-Georgia (vs. #94 and #92 offense)
3-Auburn (vs. #120 offense and FCS)
4-South Carolina (vs. FCS and #108 offense)
10-Alabama (vs. #110 offense and FCS)
11-Kentucky (vs. #130 and #51 offense)
27-Arkansas (vs. #123 and #98 offense)
43-Texas A&M (vs. #19 and #109 offense)
48-LSU (vs. #54 offense and FCS)
49-Tennessee (vs. #122 and #24 offense)
70-Mississippi State (vs. #63 and #55 offense)
73-Ole Miss (vs. #65 offense and FCS)
74-Florida (vs. #28 and #119 offense)
82-Vanderbilt (vs. FCS and #43 offense)
122-Missouri (vs. #27 and #12 offense)

Scoring offense rankings

2-Auburn (vs. #130 defense and FCS)
7-Ole Miss (vs. #72 defense and FCS)
13-Alabama (vs. #111 defense and FCS)
26-Florida (vs. #61 and #124 defense)
26-Kentucky (vs. #126 and #96 defense)
32-Arkansas (vs. #120 and #95 defense)
40-Tennessee (vs. #99 and #54 defense)
52-Georgia (vs. #3 and #91 defense)
52-South Carolina (vs. FCS and #90 defense)
64-Missouri (vs. #40 and #49 defense)
66-LSU (vs. #47 defense and FCS)
71-Mississippi State (vs. #119 and #18 defense)
91-Texas A&M (vs. #87 and #5 defense)
121-Vanderbilt (vs. FCS and #180 defense)

Scoring defense rankings

1-Auburn (vs. #118 offense and FCS)
1-Georgia (vs. #88 and #111 offense)
5-South Carolina (vs. FCS and #113 offense)
5-Texas A&M (vs. #43 and #105 offense)
29-Alabama (vs. #111 offense and FCS)
49-Arkansas (vs. #125 and #71 offense)
49-Kentucky (vs. #126 and #64 offense)
54-Florida (vs. #71 and #126 offense)
54-Ole Miss (vs. #85 offense and FCS)
61-Mississippi State (vs. #29 and #82 offense)
61-Vanderbilt (vs. FCS and #99 defense)
68-LSU (vs. #24 offense and FCS)
74-Tennessee (vs. #124 and #13 offense)
96-Missouri (vs. #44 and #26 offense)

This is probably factual. But it's way too early in the year for it to mean anything.

QB ratings when pressured. Min of 8 pressures.

Per PFF stats (# of pressures)

1. Bryce Young (BAMA) (132.4) (29)
2. Hendon Hooker (VOLS) (77.1) (9)
3. Zeb Noland (USC) (70.8) (10)
4. Emory Jones (FLA) (68.2) (11)
5. Ken Seals (VAN) (63.4) (20)
6. Joe Milton III (VOLS) (60.4) (9)
7. Matt Corral (MISS) (50.4) (17)
8. Zach Calzada (A&M) (46.0) (17)
9. Will Levis (UK) (42.6) (15)
10. Connor Bazelak (MIZ) (39.6) (22)
11. Haynes King (A&M) (35.6) (12)
12. Will Rogers (MSU) (28.3) (19)
13. Max Johnson (LSU) (27.8) (26)
14. KJ Jefferson (ARK) (0.0) (12)

We only have 19 pressures!? Wow. That's fantastic considering we've thrown the ball so much

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Originally Posted by confucius say

We only have 19 pressures!? Wow. That's fantastic considering we've thrown the ball so much

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I was also surprised. However, if that QBR under pressure stays low, I have a feeling we may see some more blitzing. That could go either way for us. Will be interesting to watch. Defenses may be content to just sit in the 3-8 though.

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Originally Posted by PMDawg

I was also surprised. However, if that QBR under pressure stays low, I have a feeling we may see some more blitzing. That could go either way for us. Will be interesting to watch. Defenses may be content to just sit in the 3-8 though.

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If they blitz, that opens up room for the mesh or screens to work. If they stay in 3-8 zone, we play action them. That was the point of the play action- to freeze the LBs so there's space behind them. DCs now have to adjust because (credit to Will here) we executed it well every time. Maybe they adjust by bringing the safeties up and in and forcing Will to beat the corners deep, or hell maybe they should just tell the LBs to ignore the run and trust their 3 DL to beat our terrible run blocking OL, but they can't keep letting 3 LBs get sucked up by play action and miss their zone responsibilities.

Memphis doesn't seem to have the defensive coaching to come up with the correct adjustment and execute it, so it will be interesting to see what LSU does.

But, as long as it's a running down, play action will defeat the 3-8. Leach finally adapted

Im not understanding our defensive rankings. They look not so good but what I've seen is a pretty solid D.

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Originally Posted by OLJWales

Im not understanding our defensive rankings. They look not so good but what I've seen is a pretty solid D.

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It’s a ranking. It’s how good you are relative to others. And with only two games it’s skewed. Like if we “ranked” wins/losses, Vandy would be tied with Clemson and Ohio State. But Vandy won’t stay that way. There aren’t enough games played to get a gauge yet.

We didnt play very good D against La Tech so thats why its where it is. We'll see how we do against Memphis. They have a pretty good offense.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

We didnt play very good D against La Tech so thats why its where it is. We'll see how we do against Memphis. They have a pretty good offense.

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This is the correct answer.

We've given up 4 def TD. One in extreme garbage time.

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Originally Posted by OLJWales

We've given up 4 def TD. One in extreme garbage time.

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The defense played great against NC State. It did not against La Tech. 27 points were given up and we were lucky it wasnt more.

Can Memphis put up 27 on us? We'll see. I hope not because if they get 27-30 we could be in trouble

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Originally Posted by Coach34

The defense played great against NC State. It did not against La Tech. 27 points were given up and we were lucky it wasnt more.

Can Memphis put up 27 on us? We'll see. I hope not because if they get 27-30 we could be in trouble

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I gotta feelin we gone have a coming out party on O Saturday.

Mississippi State will score in the mid 30?s or higher this weekend. If Memphis can score with us against our defense, they deserve to win. There was no excuse for our defense to give LaTech 27 points and no way our defense should give Memphis the high 20?s. So....

State 38 Memphis 24

As someone said a few years ago, we gonna score so much on mempho it's gonna be like a First 48 episode streaming live from whirehaven.