re: Best SEC Defenses/Offenses of last 5 years

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Call me a homer, but I maintain that the 2011 LSU defense was better. Statistically their numbers were not significantly different with Bama having a slight edge in a few categories. The eyeball test for these numbers is very misleading based on the offenses that LSU played as opposed to those that Bama faced. The non common opponents that LSU faced had much higher ranked offenses, and therefore confounded the numbers. Also LSU had a more accurate sample size.

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They were both great defenses. It's really hard to say who was better. Alabama had a better offense than LSU did in 2011. The LSU offense lived off of the momentum carried by the defense. A lot of the points scored that season were either defense and special teams, or setup by defense and special teams. And that should speak volumes to how great the LSU defense was considering how many points a Les Miles team scored that year