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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1620499, member: 289"]
From my SU Football Preview last August:

"There are 125 Major college teams so the 63rd ranked team is an ‘average’ team. Last year the 63rd ranked scoring team was Rice, which averaged 29 points a game. We’re in an era when to beat an average team you’ve got to score 30 points. If you don’t and still win, you’ve either got a great defense or you were lucky. In Syracuse’s history we’ve had exactly nine teams that averaged 30 points per game. They are: the 1904 team that beat Manhattan 144-0, (and Allegheny and Clarkson by 69-0 each); the 1916 team, who opened their schedule against something called “All-Syracuse", (57-0) and then beat Ohio U., Franklin & Marshall and Susquehanna by a combined 175-0), the 1959 national champions, the undefeated 1987 team, the four Donovan McNabb teams and Ryan Nassib’s senior year, when we finally got the passing game going, (temporarily) .We just had a national championship game between teams that came in with their defenses giving up 22 points a game each. That used to be bad defense. Now it’s national championship defense.

It’s a new era. What is happening now in football is what happened to basketball in the 1940’s, when they started that decade, it was about winning 40-30 games. By the end of the decade, it was about winning 70-60 games and teams that were still trying to win 40-30 games were losing big. In football, we’ve gone from trying to win 21-14 games to trying to win 35-28 games and if we are still trying to win games 21-14, we are going to lose big, too."
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