Lawnmower8
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1987-1988 vs. 2006-2007 (More Similarities)
I. Inexperience? Last time we had 3 returning starters on offense, and less than 5 returning starters on defense, and a new defensive coordinator, and a tough schedule?……
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Brady Quinn for Heisman
AVERAGE PASS DEFENSE FACED: – Troy Smith: #75 – Brady Quinn: #63 AVERAGE TOTAL DEFENSE FACED: – Troy Smith: #66 – Brady Quinn: #61 AVERAGE SCORING DEFENSE FACED:…
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Scouting Defensive Coordinators (Summary)
Decided to sum up the previous UHND posts on my scouting of college defensive coordinators and NFL defensive assistants and post the results here. I’m convinced that we’re…
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How Fast Can The Defense Improve, Pt. V
Last time we looked at the last five years of (six) college football national champions to see how their rankings improved from the year before each team won…
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How Fast Can The Irish Defense Improve, Pt. IV
Last time we highlighted some of the reasons why sevens teams (Tennessee, Florida, Kansas, South Florida, TCU, Middle Tennessee State, and Texas Tech) dramatically improved their defense statistical…
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(Scoring) Defense (Still) Wins Championships
Why are we so worried about how the pass defense will stack up in 2006? According to the past five years of college football national championships, scoring defense…
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How Fast Can The Defense Improve? (Part III)
Last time, we looked at teams with Top 20 Defenses for 2005 who finished outside of the Top 20 on Defense the year before (2004). We highlighted dramatic…
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How Fast Can The Irish Defense Improve? (Part II)
Going back to an earlier post and UHND blog entry of mine, I thought I’d look at some of the top defenses of 2005, but only focusing on…
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What if? 1995 Notre Dame Season with Powlus, Mayes and … Randy Moss?
Building off of a recent B&G article on Mayes (which, though I don’t recommend B&G, I thought it was interesting), what if Randy Moss had not been an…
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How quickly can the Irish defense improve?
Defensive Benchmarks: 2005 vs. 2004 I. 2005 Top Ten Total Defense (Total Records: 88-31) vs. same team in 2004 1. Virginia Tech (11-2): 247.6 ypg – [vs. #4…