A little love for the D

[upperdeck]

Really just had the one big play break down. Minus the ST and offense allowing points thats a 3 game stretch of 21-17-13. No matter who you play that is a decent job. Add in the 7 vs Colgate and 24 vs Uconn and five of the 8 games they did their job.
UL it turns out lights up almost every one.

If the offense was scoring as much as the move the ball we might have won USF/ND in a shootout and the D allowed only 40 of the ND points and 38 of the USF points those are numbers this offense should have been able to reach with the kind of yards we have put up.

baby steps of the Tampa 2.

NC st looked bad yesterday, Clemson has been beatable half the games they played, Pitt has a terrible pass defense but may run for 300 against us, and FSU who knows wake had shot. They were lucky to escape Ol miss and Miami could easily be 3-4, maybe BC shocks them again and they come to the Dome after a couple losses and are just playing out the string.

 

[Cuseregular]

Really just had the one big play break down. Minus the ST and offense allowing points thats a 3 game stretch of 21-17-13. No matter who you play that is a decent job. Add in the 7 vs Colgate and 24 vs Uconn and five of the 8 games they did their job.
UL it turns out lights up almost every one.

If the offense was scoring as much as the move the ball we might have won USF/ND in a shootout and the D allowed only 40 of the ND points and 38 of the USF points those are numbers this offense should have been able to reach with the kind of yards we have put up.

baby steps of the Tampa 2.

NC st looked bad yesterday, Clemson has been beatable half the games they played, Pitt has a terrible pass defense but may run for 300 against us, and FSU who knows wake had shot. They were lucky to escape Ol miss and Miami could easily be 3-4, maybe BC shocks them again and they come to the Dome after a couple losses and are just playing out the string.

I can tell you one thing FSU feels their season is already lost now that they have two loses and are out of the NC hunt. They will come in here unmotivated and with us being the opposite of that we can give them a game. A win? Who knows. NCst there's zero question in my mind we can beat with this thing firing on all cylinders by then, Pitt we can hang with, Clemson lets hope they're on a one week hangover after FSU this upcoming weekend.

Here's the amazing thing, there's stiill a shot at a bowl game which IMHO will be how this season can be judged as an unqualified success.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

We were fortunate recipients of some really bad decisions by BC's QB -- the most significant was not running it in for a TD on the first drive (and, on the same play, getting called for passing it while past the line of scrimmage.). Also fortunate that our multitude of penalties didn't completely take this game from us ... But that was mostly an issue of our offense.

The D does look more confident and coordinated. Love the youth that we have.