GeauxBob

What is happening? Start 5-2 and possibly NOT make a bowl? End potentially 1-7 in the Big Ten?

I am sorry, but his seat is hot again in Ann Arbor.

due to the hype of that game, you are correct.

I just mean by what they bring to their teams. Lindley is definitely good. Haden benefits from great pass rush, and same goes for jenkins. Only questionable one in my top 3 is Arenas, but he offers a lot more to his team than the others below him.

congrats on your first child "Gaw'ziwa"

Again, outside of the Mizzou game (now that we all no Mizzou isn't worth anything, much less anyone in the Big 12 North), they shut down their only two "legitimate" opponents who were missing their best players and pretty much whole offense.

The Big XII is that bad this year with Bradford and Bryant out. It rivals the Big Ten, for ineptitude in BCS conferences.

That being said, they are better than last year on defense, but they also have NOT faced any teams with offenses like OU, OSU, and TTech had last year.

Ghey!

I didn't say it would make a difference, but it could give our players a little extra motivation, and not get overhyped.

Look at last years game against Bama. No one gave us a shot, and we took it OT.

We only had 47 plays in the UF game, and that is what hurt us along with the fact they had a 13 minute advantage in time of possession.

We rushed for only 66 yards. If you take out JJ's 5 sacks, which all happened in the second half, then we get 97 yards on 25 carries or 3.88 ypc.

What's interesting to note is that in both the UGA and UF games, only one sack was given up in the first half of either game, and we actually got around the 1st half sack against UGA.

In both games, however, LSU gave up 10 sacks in the second half of both of those games. 7 of those 10 sacks came on LSU's first two drives on the second half, so from what I am gathering, it seems teams were figuring out our blocking schemes at halftime, and our offense wasn't making ANY adjustments out of the half.

Hopefully this will change against Bama.

almost cost us the UGA game too. It was 10-3 late in the 4th, and we gave up a 90+ yard TD on a RB screen.

Luckily, we scored a TD on the next drive I believe.

Auburn was at home so that makes a difference, but I think he'll open it up a little more seeing as how being conservative killed us against UF.

If we can keep their defense off balance, then I think we'll move the ball.