re: Dispelling the myth of "3rd and Chavis"

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am sure Chavis' response to his critics would be that the defense was too tired to play man cover that late in the game

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If this is his excuse, he's either a liar or he's just dumb. And his problem will only get worse at TAMU.

Time of possession is usually a pretty worthless stat, but in this instance it means rest for the defense. Miles' game is ball control. Since Chavis got to LSU the average time of possession is roughly 31 minutes. That puts LSU teams at or near the top of the league every year.

Meanwhile, over the same timespan Sumlin's teams (at UH and TAMU) averaged roughly 27 minutes in TOP.

Now on the surface, 4 minutes doesn't seem like a lot of rest. But remember this is game clock. The average length of current college football games in real time is 3hrs 23 mins, or 203 minutes.

Thus one game minute is about 4 mins 13 seconds in real time on average. Which means that a 4 minute difference in TOP equates to nearly 17 minutes in real time.





TL,DR
But your argument is invalid.