Grisha.Otrepyev
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Interesting article.
People will claim that Alabama’s offense is not good, but that is simply not true. It’s not pretty, but it is almost always very effective. No team had held Alabama under 4.5 yards/play since 2014 LSU, 37 games ago. FSU did that.
Their effort has also been extremely impressive considering how many times the Seminoles’ defense was put in terrible spots thanks to the atrocious special teams. I expected the defense to get demoralized and quit. It did not.
Alabama’s average starting field position was the 45.5-yard line. Florida State’s was the 23.3. Over 13 drives, that adds up to 289 “hidden yards” of field position. Let’s compare that to the yards each team gained.
289: Hidden yards of field position for Alabama
269: Yards gained by Alabama’s offense
250: Yards gained by Florida State’s offense
So Alabama had more yards in hidden yards than either the Tide or FSU had on offense
https://www.tomahawknation.com/flor...ate-defense-championship-deondre-francois-fsu
People will claim that Alabama’s offense is not good, but that is simply not true. It’s not pretty, but it is almost always very effective. No team had held Alabama under 4.5 yards/play since 2014 LSU, 37 games ago. FSU did that.
Their effort has also been extremely impressive considering how many times the Seminoles’ defense was put in terrible spots thanks to the atrocious special teams. I expected the defense to get demoralized and quit. It did not.
Alabama’s average starting field position was the 45.5-yard line. Florida State’s was the 23.3. Over 13 drives, that adds up to 289 “hidden yards” of field position. Let’s compare that to the yards each team gained.
289: Hidden yards of field position for Alabama
269: Yards gained by Alabama’s offense
250: Yards gained by Florida State’s offense
So Alabama had more yards in hidden yards than either the Tide or FSU had on offense
https://www.tomahawknation.com/flor...ate-defense-championship-deondre-francois-fsu