Who will be the best defensive team in the SEC this year?
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wow so your saying that the best three defenses from last year are going to be the same best defenses this year?? taking quite a leap of faith on that one…. very boring article, my grandmother could have told you Bama LSU and Florida would have good defenses this year. not even having ONE reach team, might as well just copy-paste from ESPN.
Thanks for the comment Justin. The article took a quick look at how those three teams figure to stack up on defense this coming season.
Glad to hear your grandmother knows her college football.
I’d expect South Carolina to push into the 2013 top three SEC defenses. Probably over Florida. Ole Miss going way up wouldn’t stun me either, but that’s a bigger reach.
Definitely agree that Ole Miss should move into the upper half of the SEC in D ….. 5th or 6th would be a healthy jump from last season.
South Carolina and Florida probably fight it out again for 3rd.
What was the defensive ranking from top to bottom in the SEC divisions, NOT INCLUDING NON-CONFERENCE GAMES AND CROSS DIVISIONS. Every other ranking has very little validity. Here’s another defensive ranking stat that has just truth in it: Take the inter-conference game between two conferences, for example in 2012, LSU played Washington and Missouri played Arizona State, then compare the points allowed to the in conference results. i.e.
If Missouri allowed ASU to score 21 points, what was the average of the rest of the PAC 12 points allowed when ASU played them. By doing this you can pseudo-rank LSU and Missouri in the Pac 12, and make an SEC cross division comparison of LSU and Missouri.
These thoughtful comparisons rise above the boring drum beats of SEC natives and even make grandmother’s head explode. Plus the embarrass those who try to use rankings that make absolutely zero sense, LIKE ESPN RANKING OF ALL THE D1 TEAMS REGARDLESS OF THEIR SCHECULE. W H A T A J O K E T H A T I S
No wonder programs like Missouri who played the toughest schedule in the ncaa last year have zero incentive to keep doing that, when sports writers are just going to ignore what they did by treating their statistics the same as a team who played the weakest schedule in the ncaa last year.
reader who believe this stuff and even use this data to critic other writers make complete donkeys out of themselves.
Good thoughts Wolf.
Just taking SEC games (including cross division games), Alabama and Florida were still the top 2 defensive teams in the SEC. South Carolina was 3rd and LSU 4th.