re: Saban the Traditionalist

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I went to the UT-Baylor game this past season, it was a 70-63 final score. That's not football.

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It is in the big 12. They don't play defense.

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I agree with him 100%

I went to the UT-Baylor game this past season, it was a 70-63 final score. That's not football.

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Yep. It's a perfectly legal scheme designed to give less talented teams a chance against bigger schools who can recruit NFL caliber front 7's. If you speed up the game and can throw quick passes and use misdirection runs, you can tire those big linemen and take them out of the game. It makes it a battle of QB and WR's v. CB's and safeties which is much easier to win than 11 on 11 against a better team.

I have no issue with it because I don't really see it as a threat to the traditional powers. When is the last time a team using this offense won a national title besides Auburn?

The best way to stop it is to use a traditional offense yourself and grind down the clock until the opposing defense is puking all over the field in the 4th quarter.