All of our swing games are on the road minus ole miss. Teams we usually lose to are at home. Bama and LSU. Our odd years are usually not our best years based on our schedule rotation. We also play Carolina on the road. This is the same team that whooped Tennessee last year at home. They typically play well at very well at home like a lot of teams.
Wow, now name calling. Come on Tro, you are better than that. Your stats were out of focus but I assume they are ypg. Yes, I've watched Colorado and JSU and saw their running QBs. My point was with the air raid we were 5th in scoring and won 9 games. I would love to have an accurate running QB but we don't to my knowledge. The jury is still out on our backup QBs. We can only speculate on what Leach planned to do going forward. He signed Chris Parson so it looks like he wanted to move in that direction. He was also running the ball more at the end of last season. My point Leach improved our program. No coach is perfect but his system works when you have lesser talent. He almost beat Georgia back in 2020. No way we should have stayed on the field with them.
Yes, I think 10 would be the expectation for Leach this year at a minimum. Last year a lot of fans were calling for more. Leach was a very good coach. I think this year and next he would have really hit his stride. I wish I would have gotten to see his offense with Parson.
The jury is still out if this is the offense I want because I want the the Riley style offense. Balance with a mobile qb who can throw. That's what I wanted coming from leach's offense. I don't think will is that guy to do that and hinders the offense from being what IT could be. Obviously he helps it not be one dimensional at the current offense. I dont want Barbay handing it off to the back 70 percent of the game. Balance is the key. But will also can't miss on third downs when it's there or hold the ball to long and take a sack. That's where a mobile qb would make us better. Extend plays and allow people to get open. Obviously if a qb turns it over that's not good either, but there are mobile qbs not delaura don't over turn it that much.
Because we replace 2 swing games at home with 2 that are auto-losses, and even the game replacing the national champs is an away game against a formidable opponent in which we will be underdogs. Ain’t like we’re trading them for Vandy.
Our SOS ranking means nothing when everyone has only played 2 games.
Clearly our schedule was tougher last year just based on swapping Georgia and South Carolina. Our SOS will track lower this entire season and end up lower than last year. Alabama is also weaker this year.
Depends on how you judge the SOS. If you correct for home vs. away, then just playing Arizona at home removes a lot of the difficulty. But swapping UGA at home where we were like a 20 point underdog for USC away where we will still be a 5-7 point underdog might make the SOS “easier”, but it likely doesn’t do anything for us in the W-L column. Same for moving LSU / Bama to home games. What kills us is moving 3 of our typical 3-5 point home favorite games from last year (Auburn, Arkansas, A&M) from home to away, and only getting 2 games like that going the other direction in OM / UK.
