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Also, unlike last year, all of the starters are healthy (knock on wood). We seem to forget all the injuries last year, including Kendall Fuller, that forced Bud to play inexperienced guys and move to a more vanilla defensive scheme.

No. Irregardless is a word!

Oh, agreed.... I actually think our defense has always been good, and we even had a good defense the last few years, but the weight of the program being on their shoulders just was too much to carry and it overwhelmed them a bit, making them look worse than they really were. Now that the offense is lighting up scoreboards, the defense is rounding into the form it should have been all along.

And I completely agree with what you said. Seemingly every time you've seen a team with a great offense in college football its backed by a bad defense, going all the way back to when WVU, Texas Tech, and Oregon kicked it off nearly 10-15 years ago. And that's where we differ from the pack. Yes, we have an offense that can light you up. We also have a defense that can shut you down. I ran the numbers over the summer, and found if we are able to break 31 points in a given game, last years' defense would have won us the game. We're destroying that value this year, and our defense is lowering the bar on what we need to accomplish to win. If we can keep up this rate of play for multiple years on end, right now we have the formula to legitimately contend for a National Championship.

Which is insane to say for a team that was barely scraping above .500 the last few years

Agreed about the front 7 being the main catalyst for an improved defense, but I would argue that Mook is/has the potential to be great.

My answer: Yes!

Simply put, I think it is due to a wholesale culture shift. Offense, defense, special teams, training, conditioning, preparation, etc.

Even though I had to change my pants, well done!

NC State
Tennessee
Miami
Ole Miss
Colorado
Wisconsin

I know, right?

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I love the fact that our odds of beating LOLUVa have increased, and our predicted margin of victory against them has shot up by nearly 50%, but their position on our chart has fallen

Yeah, we're so good we're literally breaking statistics

Nothing will put me in a weird happy place until we shove a size 17 boot so far up Pitt's ass they're tasting the Kenan Stadium turf for a week