Max Chadwick breaks down the top-10 defensive lines entering the 2025 college football season.
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i said i wouldn't do this this offseason based on how things turned out last year with all the offseason accolades/list
but its interesting to say the least ...
To be fair, all the PFF pre-season hype was on offense, and it all hit to the tune of the best offense in the history of the school and the #1 overall NFL draft pick.
Remember my "This room is FILTHY" threads all summer last year? They were all on offense.
Now, the gator OL hype I don't get either. Yes, they return 5 of the 6 guys who played over 300 snaps for them. That's great. Maybe they'll get better....I guess in theory, they should. But this could very well be a situation that happens every off-season and people never learn, and that's experience does not equal talent.
Here is where the gator ranked in:
Yards per carry - 48th
Sacks allowed - 47th
TFL allowed - 55th
Offensive yards per play - 45th
Now here is where Miami ranked in the same categories, noting we lose Rivers (NFL pick) and Carpenter but Rivers missed a good chunk of time last year, Brockermeyer should be at least an equivalent to Carpenter, and Mauigoa/Cooper on the right side are a year older/better and should be genuinely a collective Top 5 side of an OL in America:
Yards per carry - 5th
Sacks allowed - 51st
TFL allowed - 3rd
Offensive yards per play - 1st