Typically no. These up-tempo offenses (like Baylor's) rely on finesse and wearing out the other team. When a team can hold the ball and eat clock, these cutesy offenses aren't on the field enough to play like they normally do - they get out of sync and such. Just lost at most any time one of these teams has played against a championship level team - the offense didn't work as well and they aren't able to stay on the field enough to score like the commonly do.serious question. this is a sentiment i've heard for years, but never really understood. instead of a 41 - 40 game, things would be different because it is now 14 - 10?
On top of that, these teams rarely (if ever) field a decent defense - they mindset is to outscore the opposing team. Once the offense is kept off the field, kept 'cold', not only are they less effective but the relatively weak defense wears down.
Keep an offense off the field for 34 minutes and they'll have a hard time being effective, finding their groove.
But ultimately, my post above is an answer to the statement that 'no one can hold Baylor under 50 points'...
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