UF is 18th in Total D, but they have played a slate of terrible offensive teams.
Excluding McNeese, the best Total 0 they played was UTjr, coming in at no. 34. They acquitted themselves well that game (at home), with the UF offense producing 350 yards and 22 points (defensive turnover essentially gave them the other 7 of their 29 points) and the UF D giving up only 16 points and 387 yards.
After Tennessee, they played offenses 71, 93, 98, 100, and 120. They have played one good passing offense, SCJr, where Rattler outperformed his yearly stats in completion percentage, TDs, and YPA. Outside of SCjr, they played Vandy (41st in passing), UTjr (76), UK (105), Charlotte (118), and Utah (119).
If you look at the UK game, it's easy to say we need to emphasize the run, but UF stuffed UTjr's run game (30 carries for 100 yards), and UTjr is 7th in rushing. The only other team outside UK to average over 4 YPC against UF is SCJr, and while they aren't a good rushing team, I think that itself tells part of the story because UF was more concerned with stopping Rattler but still struggled to do it. They had to make a choice.
Bottom line for me: they're not as bad at rush D as their rankings suggest, and they're not nearly as good at pass D as their ranking.
We will present the most balanced offense they've seen all year by a mile. In fairness, our stats are also heavily biased due to a crap schedule, as we haven't played a single defense in the Top 50. That said, we annihilated the best D we faced (UK at 51), scoring 51 points and accumulating 600 yards of offense. It's likely we're not the third best offense in America nor the 5th best passing offense, but we're probably Top 15. And I don't think UF can slow our pass game down without getting gashed on the ground.
Score 30 and we win this comfortably.
Excluding McNeese, the best Total 0 they played was UTjr, coming in at no. 34. They acquitted themselves well that game (at home), with the UF offense producing 350 yards and 22 points (defensive turnover essentially gave them the other 7 of their 29 points) and the UF D giving up only 16 points and 387 yards.
After Tennessee, they played offenses 71, 93, 98, 100, and 120. They have played one good passing offense, SCJr, where Rattler outperformed his yearly stats in completion percentage, TDs, and YPA. Outside of SCjr, they played Vandy (41st in passing), UTjr (76), UK (105), Charlotte (118), and Utah (119).
If you look at the UK game, it's easy to say we need to emphasize the run, but UF stuffed UTjr's run game (30 carries for 100 yards), and UTjr is 7th in rushing. The only other team outside UK to average over 4 YPC against UF is SCJr, and while they aren't a good rushing team, I think that itself tells part of the story because UF was more concerned with stopping Rattler but still struggled to do it. They had to make a choice.
Bottom line for me: they're not as bad at rush D as their rankings suggest, and they're not nearly as good at pass D as their ranking.
We will present the most balanced offense they've seen all year by a mile. In fairness, our stats are also heavily biased due to a crap schedule, as we haven't played a single defense in the Top 50. That said, we annihilated the best D we faced (UK at 51), scoring 51 points and accumulating 600 yards of offense. It's likely we're not the third best offense in America nor the 5th best passing offense, but we're probably Top 15. And I don't think UF can slow our pass game down without getting gashed on the ground.
Score 30 and we win this comfortably.
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