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Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:53 am to meansonny
Posted on 4/23/18 at 12:53 am to meansonny
The key to winning in this league is controlling the LOS on both sides of the ball. Everything else generally falls into place if you can do that. But yes, you have to be able to run the ball in this league to win. There has yet to be a conference champion that didn’t have a good, mostly great, running game. Plenty of teams in this league won NCs with average QB play: Tennessee 1998, LSU 2003, Florida 2006, LSU 2007, Alabama 2009, Alabama 2015. That’s not to say these teams had bad QBs but they didn’t have QBs that carried their teams either. What all these teams had in common were good lines on both sides of the ball, strong running games, and good defenses.
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 1:02 am to lsufball19
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controlling the LOS on both sides of the ball
We are on the same wavelength.
Many teams may have great rushing stats on 1st down.
Many teams may be able to run the football in between the 20s.
That is how football is played when a defense respects the run/pass opportunity. You can run the football well with a talented tailback. Or good OL.
However if you flip that to a goalline package or 3rd and 1 situation... the quality of the OL (or DL) and ability to win the line of scrimmage is telling. That running back who is money for 5 yards on first down might be bad to awful in the red zone. That 1 yard might as well be 10 when the defense can clog the lanes with bodies and limit the amount of real estate to work with.
That is why rushing TDs is the metric and not yards per game or yards per attempt. You win games by scoring points. And you will have fewer mistakes by keeping it on the ground.
It is the way this conference is and may always be.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:25 am to lsufball19
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he key to winning in this league is controlling the LOS on both sides of the ball. Everything else generally falls into place if you can do that. But yes, you have to be able to run the ball in this league to win. There has yet to be a conference champion that didn’t have a good, mostly great, running game. Plenty of teams in this league won NCs with average QB play: Tennessee 1998, LSU 2003, Florida 2006, LSU 2007, Alabama 2009, Alabama 2015. That’s not to say these teams had bad QBs but they didn’t have QBs that carried their teams either. What all these teams had in common were good lines on both sides of the ball, strong running games, and good defenses.
Yes, you have to be able to rush the ball, but it is now a QB League (same as the NFL). You can win games with a strong rushing game, but it will not take you to the next level. Last year is a good example, Bama could run the ball, but they would not have won the NC on Hurts arm (even with their talent). UGA lost two games to SECW teams when they took away the run game. LSU was as good as anyone running the ball.
You can not win big with just a good QB, you need a good Defense (see AU 2014). But it is a QB league now.
This post was edited on 4/23/18 at 8:45 am
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