couldn't care less about that until every team has played nearly half the season.
I don't necessarily disagree with you on that, but the polls are coming out anyway and somebody has to be number 2. I'm not sure who else it would be, because I didn't see anybody that impressed me enough to take our spot with the possible exception of A&M. Even there, Carolina's defense was atrocious so not sure what to make of the Ags just yet.
Ok, I get it. You know who's not in the top 5, but you don't know who is in it.
If Notre Dame wins they'll declare them champion and say the playoff is for the 2nd place team.
While I agree with you, we did only surrender 28 yards on the ground. And as Bebes used to always say, you've got to be able to run the ball, and stop the run. We did both Saturday. I'll be fine allowing teams to throw for 300+ on us each week as long as we keep them out of the end zone like we did Saturday. On their only offense TD, our DB was on the receiver like a second jersey. It was just a spectacularly thrown ball. I'll give teams field goals all day long. And we'll correct the special teams TD issue.
Played terrible on defense? We gave up 1 defensive TD to a wide open, well prepared, spread team. And the coverage by our DB was almost perfect on that TD play. And we gave up a whopping 28 rushing yards. Was it a stellar Bama type defensive performance? No. Was it terrible? Also no.
The defense wasn't terrible. But it wasn't good...at all. I'm not sure using rushing yards as a barometer is the correct stat to use to determine if the defense was good or not. WVU only rushed the ball 24 times compared to 45 passing attempts. WVU is a pass heavy team and only uses the run to keep people honest. That's it. It is not their bread and butter. Giving up 8.1 yards per pass isn't something to write home about. The missed tackles in open space will get us beat. Sure, there were some completions where the wr and qb just made a great throw and catch. But there were waaaaay too many missed tackles, wrong reads and wrong reactions on our part. We've got some cleaning up to do before we get into SEC play on the defensive side of the ball.
I'm at home with a sick child today so we've been watching a lot of the reaction from this past weekend and it looks like a lot of the pundits have realized that more teams than Bama looked a bit "off" this weekend. I've watched several college football shows and not one has had the reaction Galloway and Kanell had. All have said "It's the first week, no need to overreact. A lot of top ranked teams have issues to workout."
Same here brother, I graduated in 99. The DuBose years weren't fun either.
I don't think he actually played that much.Kanell...didn't he used to play football for someone back in the day? I can't recall who. Whatever became of that guy?
