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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5565410, member: 10528"]
First Quarter at Georgia Tech: Fumble, FG, Punt.  How is that a bad start at all???  Ga Tech averages 30+ PPG against FBS defenses.  We held them to 3 and got a turnover.

Gardner-Webb, an FCS school, passed for 200 yards against Ga Tech and ran for another 100.  Our accomplishments against Ga Tech offensively were similar.  FBS teams averaged 24 PPG against Ga Tech (excluding us) and we scored 16.  Only Gardner-Webb scored less against Ga Tech.

Our offense scored nearly 1/3 of its points so far against Colgate.  Take away that game... 17 PPG in the other 9 games.  The worst offense I have ever seen was GRob in 2005.  And that team scored 152 in 11 games... no FCS opponents.. so 14 PPG agaisnt FBS.  We are one field goal per game better than the worst offense I have ever seen.

Whatever our defense is... it is within a standard deviation or two of what we can expect out of an SU defense with this schedule for the past 40 years.

The offense, however, has been historically bad.  I don't care who your QB is... there is NO excuse for a P4 offensive coordinator having 6 straight games without an offensive TD in the first half outside of 15-yard drive.  We can make it worse--add in the 3rd quarter... no additional TDs.  So, our offense has scored ONE non-garbage time TD in 6 games... and it was a 15 yard drive.  Our defense has also scored one first half-TD in 6 games.  And that was a longer "drive" than our one offensive TD.  And we wonder why Our D is eschewing tackling and instead going for the ball strip, giving up yardage and first downs along the way...
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