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Has College Football Ever Seen a Better Offense?

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Stony157 said:
Joe Burrow and LSU are considered to be #1 in the modern era. Are the Canes close to them? What do the Canes have to do to be in serious consideration for #1?
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Ehhh… what do you consider close? Like Cam throwing for 30+ TDs from now throughout the playoffs with no more interceptions and completing somewhere around 75-80% of his passes? That would get him on par with Burrow for that season.
 
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Our guys are still hypnotized by bro style offense they missed the last 2 decades of the spread revolution.. kinda sad, A TON of us tried to help many see the light, fought the good fight but too many loved the fullback in the flat for 3 yards gain and punt play field position football..

Only way I can think of this question is being asked, came out of the same machine Reggie Bush came out of in Heisman house commercial.. soooooo many GREAT offenses last 15 years

I will say our offense with portal and limited time together STILL hasn't hit it's stride, there are still levels where we can hit and get better, God bless the air raid..

Praise The Lord GIF by Soul Train
 
skyman said:
Our guys are still hypnotized by bro style offense they missed the last 2 decades of the spread revolution.. kinda sad, A TON of us tried to help many see the light, fought the good fight but too many loved the fullback in the flat for 3 yards gain and punt play field position football..

Only way I can think of this question is being asked, came out of the same machine Reggie Bush came out of in Heisman house commercial.. soooooo many GREAT offenses last 15 years

I will say our offense with portal and limited time together STILL hasn't hit it's stride, there are still levels where we can hit and get better, God bless the air raid..

Praise The Lord GIF by Soul Train
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The worst part was all the high schools in our back yard had changed to those types of offenses so we were like hey this seems to work really well for you guys and it would be super simple to just ya know…keep doing that

But no let’s make you unlearn everything first and try and pick up something else
 
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JHallCanes said:
The worst part was all the high schools in our back yard had changed to those types of offenses so we were like hey this seems to work really well for you guys and it would be super simple to just ya know…keep doing that

But no let’s make you unlearn everything first and try and pick up something else
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Pro style is a beautiful offense when it works but you need soo much in your favor and with limited college practice time why make sooooo freakin hard on yourself when other teams made putting up points look easy.. Then you see how you are able to draw more talent because you have the system in place.

How much talented kids did we lose the opportunity to see play in hard rock because we wanted to be bro style.. insanity..
 
Our current numbers:
Avg. 557 ypg (1st)
Avg. 47.4 ppg (1st)
Avg. 370.4 passing/g (3rd)
Avg. 186.4 rushing/g (35th)
Passing Efficiency Rate: 176.2 (5th)
Avg. margin of victory/g: 24.9

By comparison:
2013 Baylor
Avg. 619 ypg (1st)
Avg. 52.4 ppg (1st)w
Avg. 359.1 passing/g (5th)
Avg. 259.7 rushing/g (13th)
Passing Efficiency Rate: 172.46 (2nd)
Avg. margin of victory/g: 28.8

2019 LSU
Avg. 568 ypg (1st)
Avg. 48.4 ppg (1st)
Avg. 401.6 passing/g (2nd)
Avg. 166.8 rushing/g (60th)
Passing Efficiency Rate: 197.4 (2nd)
Avg. margin of victory: 26.5

2005 USC
Avg. 580 ypg (1st)
Avg. 49.1 ppg (2nd)
Avg. 320 passing/g (5th)
Avg. 260 rushing/g (6th)
Passing Efficiency Rate: N/A
Avg. margin of victory: 26.6

2020 Bama
Avg. 542 ypg (4th)
Avg. 48.5 ppg (2nd)*
*1st among teams that played 6 games+
Avg. 358.2 passing/g (3rd)
Avg. 183.5 rushing/g (47th)
Passing Efficiency Rate: 198.99 (1st)
Avg. margin of victory: 29.1

These r the ones that I vividly remember that were mind blowingly explosive.
 
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Realistically, LSU had so much freak talent on that team it’s hard for any offense to compare. We’re equal or better at QB, OL and RB but their WR advantage was just unfair. And I say that being a HUGE fan of our guys. Burrow had the luxury of just being able to throw it up for grabs and his guys would come down with it. We just don’t have NFL All Pros at wide receiver.

I might go as far to say this is the best offense in school history. It’s tough because most of our great offenses were in a different era of college football. I don’t like making direct comparisons between today’s modern offenses to stuff from 20+ years ago. I will say Cam Ward is the best quarterback we’ve ever had. He does things nobody we’ve ever had could.
 
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