re: Lack of Defense in the SEC

For the Arkansas vs UF game, Florida really just played through the roof offensively. Our defense had a couple of busted coverages, but all in all played pretty well.

It's weird to say that after allowing 60+ but for the most part we had pretty good coverage, Trask was just putting the ball in the perfect spot and the receivers made every play they had a chance to make.

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It's weird to say that after allowing 60+ but for the most part we had pretty good coverage, Trask was just putting the ball in the perfect spot and the receivers made every play they had a chance to make

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Don't know about although your corners weren't too bad, the LB's and safeties were getting torched and that was with 7 and sometimes 8 guys in coverage.For some reason , Kirby and Odom didn't want to pressure Franks and it didn't exactly pay off...we did put a little more pressure on em in the 2nd half too little to late though.

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I am seeing a lot of questionable pass interference calls being made that would not have been called 10 years ago.

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That and minimal holding calls between the tackles.Its just the opposite in the NFL and not coincidentally,their scoring seems to be lower.

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Don't know about although your corners weren't too bad, the LB's and safeties were getting torched and that was with 7 and sometimes 8 guys in coverage.

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LBs could've gotten deeper in their zones a couple times but I don't think torched is the right way to characterize it. Trask was finding the holes and putting the right amount of height on passes to get in between zones.

The safeties getting beat (really Foucha, specifically) had more to do with Trask having enough time to manipulate zones and find the right guy. Catalon played well I thought. Had a really good pass breakup in the endzone, and an INT. He did have a TD thrown on him in man coverage but he was in good position and I believe the UF receiver got away with a push off.

Another TD thrown on Catalon was zone I believe where he recovered well and without a really good throw it probably ends up being an incompletion

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Was there some big rule change I missed?

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While the rules help, an offensive revolution has been coming to this point for the past 40 years. Go look at the all-time Yard/TD passing leaders in CFB. Most are after the year 2000. What happened before that time? Most teams leading up to the early 80s lined up in some bunched run formation like the T, I or Wishbone and just ran down your throats. Coaches up to that point thought of passing as feminine and quoted the ol "3 things happen when you throw the ball and only 1 is good" Passing was something they did out of necessity in long yardage situations or as a play action/trick play and since they didn't rep it as much as their running game they weren't very good at it. Pass percentages back then were horrible, if you got over 50% you were considered "elite". Hell, the great Joe Namath hovered around 50% for his career, Terry Bradshaw 52%.
Guys like Bill Walsh, Don "Air" Coryell, Mouse Davis, Lavell Edwards and Hal Mumme came along and made more of an emphasis on the passing game with their passing systems and percentages started to rise. Needless to say, even with their success in the beginning other coaches were hesitant to do what they were doing. You hear stories of these guys giving clinics early in their careers and coaches getting up and walking out en masse as they were talking. They wanted no part of what they were teaching. Coaching isn't a stable occupation and they saw too much risk in throwing the ball to win.
Walsh would go on to build a dynasty with a weak armed QB named Montana at SF, and once he did his coaching tree would spread through the NFL. Look at CFB, the Big 12 was a LOS slugfest before Leach went to OU with a transfer QB and they went on to win the NC running his offense after he left for Tech. The numbers speak for themselves, 5 of the top 11 all time passers in CFB are Air Raid QBs, 2 of them are Run and Shoot QBs and 1 a BYU QB.
Coaches like Urban Meyer and Sean Peyton have been to Mumme clinics. Mullen is rumored to have gotten with Leach to discuss his concepts. You keep it simple for the offense while making it complicated for the defense and see who plays faster late in the game.
Coach Darrell Royal once said "A thinking player is a slow player, and you can take that to the bank"

Defenses are still fast/talented, they're just being overloaded with information and out repped by today's offenses. Paralysis by analysis as they say.
"I don't fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks 1 time, I fear the man who practices 1 kick a thousand times." -Bruce Lee
Troy Aikman once boasted that he and Michael Irvin could go outside right now and he could hit Michael with the ball with both of them being blindfolded.

Patterson, Muschamp, Mason, Odom, Pruit, Strong, Pelini. All top DC names recently. All of their defenses being taken to school. Better get on the bus and get a good Offensive guy as your HC, because with scoring and QB efficiency at an all time high, it may be a while before defenses catch up.

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The only thing that has changed is NEEDING an elite defense to win big

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What? Ya still need defence to win a NC.

Bama and Clemson were both #1 in total defense in '17 and ''18 and LSU was elite towards the end of '19 and had top tier talent (6 drafted including two #1's)