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2. This UGA defense is good but they haven’t played a single high powered offense. They really lucked out with their west games and Clemson being in a rebuild year.
3. Mark it down, they will get torched in the SEC championship and again in the first round of the playoffs.

I’m not arguing that this defense will end the season as an all time great…there’s a lot of football left and they have a lot left to prove.

But the argument that they haven’t faced an explosive defense is because a lot of people just look at the rankings of the offenses, which are based on total yards per game, or points per game. That stat is useless, as a tool.

Yards per attempt is what is important, coupled with efficiency, and linking these to scoring. And UGA is holding teams to under 50% their rushing yards against other opponents and 70% of their passing yards and their efficiency is amazing. The numbers are elite, and ridiculously so. There are enough data points to think that unless they just have an off day, these numbers should hold against even an elite offense…they just have to keep executing, so we’ll see.

The thing is, against an OSU or Bama offense, these numbers indicate that UGA will give up around 30-35 points. UGA is almost at the CEILING of what is statistically reasonable, and should still expect to surrender that many points. That’s just the reality of modern offense. Against either team, it’s “6-5 and pick’em”.

This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 11:41 pm