CFB Nerds Alabama Vs LSU

I don’t care how bad LSU’s defense is, I MUCH rather have the far greater offense in this matchup.

If LSU plays a decent game defensively I think we get hammered. And I’m sure plenty times our own offense will stop itself.

If we could run the ball better I’d be a little more optimistic.

Roll Tide but man, I don’t see this ending well for us.

I think Coach Saban has had this game circled for a year. He's had 2 weeks to scheme for their offense, revenge game in T-Town, I like our chances.

It’s not that they haven’t improved they don’t have the guys. They are all hurt. The guys playing corner, aren’t corners.

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the gap between their offense and our defense is waaaaaay smaller than the gap between our offense and their defense

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I wish I believed that. I've watched our offense struggle against air. LSU is going to score. We can't go three and out repeatedly and hope to win with a couple bombs.

My heart says the good guys win, but I have zero confidence.

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I wish I believed that. I've watched our offense struggle against air.

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Gotta disagree. The only bad defense Milroe has faced since Middle Tennessee was Mississippi State. Ole Miss, Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas, and Tennessee all fit somewhere in the pretty good to good range

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While this may be true, it feels like they've been playing much better since the Ole Miss game. I realize they haven't faced great offenses since then, but I still think their defense has been playing much better. It seems like they got better once they moved Perkins back outside and brought in Saban's old secret weapon, Pete Jenkins.

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They gave up 527 yards and 39 points to Mizzou on the road and then got AU and Army at home and looked much better.

This will be a frustrating game for both fan bases.

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but not seeing anything to really back it up.

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Have you seen our, at best, inconsistent, and, at worst, shitty offense? That, along with Bama being LSU's superbowl, AND they have good athletes on defense even if they haven't shown it is enough to make this game a big unknown.

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Have you seen our, at best, inconsistent, and, at worst, shitty offense?

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I have, and have also seen LSU's defense. If Milroe can build on that second half vs UT and Bama can run the ball efficiently (90% sure our backs will have one of their best games of the season,) there's no reason why the offense can't dominate given the opportunity. Giving the O virtually no shot but giving LSU's terrible D the benefit of the doubt because... reasons? Doesn't make much sense to me.

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While I generally agree, the gap between their offense and our defense is waaaaaay smaller than the gap between our offense and their defense. Statistically this is probably the worst power 5 defense we’ve faced. Our offense is flawed but is overall decently effective with a high floor

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I hear you.

I just don’t think our offense is quite good enough to take advantage of LSU’s horrible defense.

LSU’s defense won’t even have to stop us sometimes. This offense stops itself and doesn’t do anything consistently to where they can lean on one thing to hammer this LSU defense.

I think it’s a realt bad matchup for Alabama. They’re playing against an offense so good that in today’s game, it’s hard to even slow it down. And our offense, that stops itself, is going against a defense with literally nothing to lose. If LSU can get 4 stops and Alabama stops itself a couple times we’re really limiting how many points we can score.

I would MUCH rather face an LSU team with a god mode defense and arse offense and play first to 17 wins. I think this is as bad a matchup as we could have.