1st. I think the result of the LSU game for them has installed a weird fear/respect for them across the conference without taking into account the deeper details of that game. LSU returned 3 starters defensively and one of them didn't play due to illness (Derek Stingley Jr.). Bo Pelini didn't change his gameplan AT ALL. Pressed and played bump and run man from kick off to 0.0 even though he started a true freshman at CB in former 5 star Elias Ricks. This is also Leach's most talented roster to work with offensively. I prefer the composite because it rounds everyones evals together but:
QB was .9749 4* #3 QB-PS. RB was .9148 4* #14 RB. WR core 6'5" 200 Osirus Mitchell .8366 3*, 6'3" 202 Austin Williams .8529 3*, 6'2" 182 JaVonta Payton .8785 3*, and 6'6" 196 Tyrell Shavers .9587 4*. The OL features a 4* and 5* tackle as well and the C is a transfer who signed with LSU out of high school. They're success against LSU makes sense. The more shocking thing is LSU not changing after understanding MSU's entire offense is trying to find one on one situations, which they did an outstanding job of finding and winning them repetitively. Their WR core is HUGE, that can't be looked down upon but no one is perfect at 50-50 one on one stuff and a ton of that was successful against LSU.
2nd. Barry Odom for sure has figured out that with as good as the Air Raid can be, Leach has never been ultra successful sans Michael Crabtree's TTU team. That's because if you play zone and tackle well you can slow it down plenty and LSU moved the ball around on them fine as well. Myles Brennan actually had 345 and 3 TDs but had two picks as well. One of the picks he got hit while throwing to a wind open guy and the ball fell into a DBs hands and the other was a hail mary with no time left. I think we can score on these guys and Barry understands that teams in the Pac 12 beat Leach regularly, especially Washington. Think that 3-2-6 with tons of quarters and match 6 will be the recipe. Our DL got pressure against UGA and came away with a few sacks as well and LSU's retooled DL also got pressure on MSU. We can get home.
3rd. MSU doesn't have the Defense UGA does. It's not an understatement to say this UGA defense is one of the better defenses all time. It literally doesn't have holes in it. I'm going out on a limb to say I don't think anyone outside of Florida and Alabama score 3 or more TD's on them this year. MSU isn't them. They had coverage busts, rely on some stunts and pressure packages to affect the QB and while athletic, don't tackle nearly as well as UGA. They are big guys and definitely athletic but it's a step back from last week. We'll see a much better offensive performance overall and especially on the ground as Rakeem and Trelon get going against them. Briles knows that everybody is expecting to see them open it up too.
To finish, I've got the good guys 35-31.
QB was .9749 4* #3 QB-PS. RB was .9148 4* #14 RB. WR core 6'5" 200 Osirus Mitchell .8366 3*, 6'3" 202 Austin Williams .8529 3*, 6'2" 182 JaVonta Payton .8785 3*, and 6'6" 196 Tyrell Shavers .9587 4*. The OL features a 4* and 5* tackle as well and the C is a transfer who signed with LSU out of high school. They're success against LSU makes sense. The more shocking thing is LSU not changing after understanding MSU's entire offense is trying to find one on one situations, which they did an outstanding job of finding and winning them repetitively. Their WR core is HUGE, that can't be looked down upon but no one is perfect at 50-50 one on one stuff and a ton of that was successful against LSU.
2nd. Barry Odom for sure has figured out that with as good as the Air Raid can be, Leach has never been ultra successful sans Michael Crabtree's TTU team. That's because if you play zone and tackle well you can slow it down plenty and LSU moved the ball around on them fine as well. Myles Brennan actually had 345 and 3 TDs but had two picks as well. One of the picks he got hit while throwing to a wind open guy and the ball fell into a DBs hands and the other was a hail mary with no time left. I think we can score on these guys and Barry understands that teams in the Pac 12 beat Leach regularly, especially Washington. Think that 3-2-6 with tons of quarters and match 6 will be the recipe. Our DL got pressure against UGA and came away with a few sacks as well and LSU's retooled DL also got pressure on MSU. We can get home.
3rd. MSU doesn't have the Defense UGA does. It's not an understatement to say this UGA defense is one of the better defenses all time. It literally doesn't have holes in it. I'm going out on a limb to say I don't think anyone outside of Florida and Alabama score 3 or more TD's on them this year. MSU isn't them. They had coverage busts, rely on some stunts and pressure packages to affect the QB and while athletic, don't tackle nearly as well as UGA. They are big guys and definitely athletic but it's a step back from last week. We'll see a much better offensive performance overall and especially on the ground as Rakeem and Trelon get going against them. Briles knows that everybody is expecting to see them open it up too.
To finish, I've got the good guys 35-31.
