Let me see if I've got this straight ...... a clearly superior LSU team "torches" two weakling defenses, and because of that, they're expected to do the same to a quality opponent? ...... yup, appears to be sound logic at work there.....
Muschamp has the advantage here (atleast in terms of familiarity). He knows Jimbo's style, several of the players' style, and play calling tendencies. Jimbo doesn't know Muschamp's players as well, doesn't know his style (as we ran Saban's style here & he will run Tubby's style there). All Jimbo knows is play calling tendencies, and even then, you never really know now with different personell & all.
Jimbo is Jimbo and he's been running Jimbo's offense for six years now at LSU. Muschamp is not Nick and he's no longer running Nick's defense. It's the first year of his defense and we haven't seen it against a contender yet. Advantage = Jimbo Fisher.
What red said = common sense and 100% right. Also, I'll add ... Muschamp doesn't have much time with his people (the other side of the coin) AND an AU weakness at safety he's got to shore up against Jimbo who's going after it.
I say Fisher as well because every year he suits his offense more to who the players are and we have a very different offense now than we did in 2003, so it will be somewhat different for Muschamp whille he was at LSU. Even if Muschamp figures out our gameplan, we have the better defense and will shut down their offense as well.
No one is saying we are going to torch Auburn (although that would be beautiful) they are simply saying they think Jimbo has an advantage over Muschamp.
It took LSU 2 or 3 years to finally get comfortable with running Saban's defense and that was with Jack Hunt playing safety and reading the offense. I seriously doubt the rocket scientist that play for Auburn will learn the entire defense in 6 months. Advantage to Jimbo
Not seeing many people on this thread suggesting LSU will "torch" AU, Caddy. AU's defense looked good versus Moo U...but this is a Moo U that had an offensive foot in the grave before they lost their starting QB for the year. That's one bad/terrible team, offensively. As for AZ, all we heard all week was how Stoops and his D were a Wildcat strength. So much for that analysis. Look, nobody's taking anything away from Aubie. I think JR's got a real edge on Cox, but on the other hand the Irons-Lester combo looks great, so it'll come down to execution, lucky bounces of the ball and heart...the way it should be when two great teams collide. (PS-I will say this--Auburn's secondary is going to be severely tested on Saturday. I'd be shocked if Jimbo doesn't go deep at least half a dozen times during the game. Stack the box against the run, pay the price, I say.)
I am starting to believe that Bo P. defense is a little better. ask miami, ull and zona? no td allowed in 12 or 14 quarters. pretty impressive.
