In Reply to: The schedule also helped the defense posted by Pyperkub on July 23, 2024 at 12:25:59
was last year. Lynn did a great job, which is why he was a key poaching candidate, plus we also lost our best DB to $cum. I recognize very few guys with meaningful reps in the likely 2-deep.
Total D is a decent measure of defensive efficacy in terms of total yds yielded/gm. Last yr our # was a stellar, only 301.5 yds yielded/gm. I'll start the bidding for this yr at almost 400 yds/gm, or roughly close to #80 in the 130-team Div 1, recognizing your point of a tuffer sched.
If we can be bowl eligible, winning 6 gms with that schedule, it would be an accomplishment. The O really needs to kick in. We'll see....