re: Stat Model - #1 Bama vs #3 OSU (Title) (7 PM CST) (Jan 11)

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They really confidently say that our safety play is much better than Clemson's. Feels like that has been one of our weaknesses against any decent offense

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I think safety play has generally been pretty good the last 8 weeks - and that includes Florida. It was dreadful against Ole Miss, possibly the worst I've ever seen, but they seem to have gotten more experience and confidence and played to their abilities. Clemson's biggest issue is that their safeties just aren't very able. Turner was out early, so they had to play kids with no experience, but even when Turner came back he knows where to be but his body isn't good enough to always get there.

Plus - Clemson plays in a way that forces their safeties to run all over the place, and they just didn't have dudes to do it.