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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1145249, member: 40"]
That's a far cry from the outcome of yesterday's game having "nothing to do with defensive performance."  Sorry if you do not see this.

It is not only a statement of opinion versus fact, but it is fairly inaccurate assessment of how our defense performed, to say nothing of matched up.

For the record, nobody is knocking the way our kids competed.  And I'm not throwing the defense under the bus.  They were bigger, stronger, and faster while we were slower and smaller.  You apparently must have missed all of those pass interference calls downfield, when our guys were beat.  Or how ND controlled the line of scrimmage.  Or how their WRs ran away from our defenders on several key plays.  Or how their QB nearly set a collegiate record for most completed passes in a row.  In fact, your assessment is not just inaccurate, its basically indefensible.

I'm proud as hell that our defense kept the score manageable, but if ND doesn't commit several unforced turnovers--and yes, a couple of them were UNFORCED--the score might have gotten out of hand.  To a great extent, that masks a fairly one-sided game where their offense had their way against our defense.

As for the defense performing better than the offense, I don't disagree.  But I think you are subjectively focusing too much on the turnovers, and ignoring the rest of the empirical data.
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