As We Expected

We here at I Am The 12th Man.com have been saying all year long that no one in the Big 12 plays any defense while no one in the SEC plays offense. This led to skewed stats in both conferences. Big 12 offenses looked great, while SEC defenses looked dominant. Texas Tech played an SEC team with similar talent to Tech and lost to a more motivated team. Amazing what happens when Tech faced a power running team who was motivated, on a field where the officials actually called holding. Meanwhile, Alabama faced a supposedly undermanned Utah team in a game between a BCS buster and a traditional power. Utah dominated the LOS the entire game, and beat Alabama at their own game. While I reserve some of my praise for Nick Saban because I think he cheats as blatantly as any coach in the country, I do believe he is one of the top defensive and gameday coaches out there, and any victory over his team is a good one. Utah's team and coaching staff deserve a lot of praise for their second undefeated season of this decade. It was humorous to watch the Utah players running circles around these SEC players who supposedly have elite speed. When it came down to it, Bama did not have the passing offense needed to keep up with the Utes. It will be interesting to see if Florida runs into the same problem against OU. I actually expect UF to win that game because I think the UF DL will be too much for OU to handle. UF also has a huge advantage on special teams. In what has been a down year in the college football world with no truly complete teams, it was very enjoyable to watch two top 10 teams get dominated in their bowl games yesterday.