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re: Jarrett Stidham says ALLbarn "has all the pieces of the puzzle." per...

Posted on 6/19/17 at 9:19 am to
Posted by Irons Puppet
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Posted on 6/19/17 at 9:19 am to
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Playing against a BIG XII caliber QB compared to an SEC QB is totally different.

He's gonna rip your SEC asses apart.


You realize that over the last 10 years the Big 12 is 15-27 (35.7%) head to head against the SEC, right?

That they're 5-16 (23.8%) against the SEC in bowl games too, right?

Oh, and I'm sure you also knew they're 0-2 (0.0%) against the SEC in national title games.

But yeah, a Big 12 QB did light up Alabama in a bowl game so clearly the evidence supports your assertion.





Everyone wants to attack the Big 12 Defenses and talk about how great the SEC Ds have been. Look at the SEC QBs the last five yeasr, there may have been a total of 5 decent passing QBs. We saw what happens to the best D in the conference when they play a decent passing QB with Alabama the last three years.
Posted by JustGetItRight
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:14 am to
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We saw what happens to the best D in the conference when they play a decent passing QB with Alabama the last three years.


The catch is that Clemson wasn't just an offensive football team. Their final total defense rankings in the last two seasons were 8th and 10th. Ohio State was 19th in 2014. In those cases, the team with the better offense has a good chance of winning the game.

As you pointed out, Alabama is 1-2 playoff games against teams with prolific offenses and good or better defenses but that's not the Big12. In the last three years, the entire Big 12 conference has had ONE team (TCU 2014) finish the season with a top 25 defense.

The numbers speak for themselves. You could potentially argue that regular season matchups could skew if a lot of SEC teams were scheduling Kansas for homecoming, but the disparity is greater in the bowl games. They play good offense, but they play really, really terrible defense. When they face teams that play good defense and reasonable offense they almost always lose.

Hence the question mark on Stidham. Will he be able to play at near the same level he did in his short time at Baylor or will he turn into JJ-Junior? One path leads to playoff contention and the other leads to a coaching search. We won't know the answer until mid October.
This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 10:15 am
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