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Has College Football Ever Seen a Better Offense?

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Rellyrell said:
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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Jesus! That Baylor offense might be my vote for 🐐

How the **** dont you win a natty with numbers like that?

I remember wanting anyone want from that staff.. even the water boy if he had the play book.. to come and be our OC
 
there's several reasons why it'll be hard for us to match 2019 lsu

1) we are more dedicated to the run

2) the running clock changes (clock continues to run after first downs and out of bounds when not inside 2 minutes of half / end of game) - went into effect this year I believe (maybe last year, can't remember)

we can be equally impressive, even if we dont match up statistically - being #1 in the country in all major categories this year is more important than chasing teams of the past, mainly due to the clock changes
 
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RozayCane said:
Also, something very underrated about Miami’s offense. It’s putting up all these numbers with the clock basically running the whole game now..

These other offense had way more time to play with and put up numbers.
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We’re running roughly the same number of plays that 2019 LSU did. Right around 72 per game.
 
RozayCane said:
Jesus! That Baylor offense might be my vote for 🐐

How the **** dont you win a natty with numbers like that?

I remember wanting anyone want from that staff.. even the water boy if he had the play book.. to come and be our OC
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They were really good offensively but their numbers were highly inflated by running up the score against terrible teams.

69-3 vs Wofford
70-13 vs Buffalo
70-7 vs Louisiana Monroe
71-7 vs a 3-9 Iowa State team

They never took their foot off the gas even with huge leads. They ran 83 plays a game. That’s more than 10 more offensive plays per game than 2024 Miami or 2019 LSU.

The Big12 was really weak but they got crushed 49-17 by Oklahoma State and they lost to UCF in the Fiesta Bowl.

As high scoring as they were they were nowhere near the best team in the nation.
 
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Cam said after the Duke game that he was excited about a lot of plays that they’ve been working on in practice that Dawson hasn’t called in a game yet. We’ve kept the offense pretty vanilla, with lots of RPO reads for Cam. This offense is already scary as it is.
 
RozayCane said:
Jesus! That Baylor offense might be my vote for 🐐

How the **** dont you win a natty with numbers like that?

I remember wanting anyone want from that staff.. even the water boy if he had the play book.. to come and be our OC
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Man, I remember it like it was yesterday:

They were primed to make the Nat’l Championship game, then they laid an egg against a good OKSt team (10-3) on the road who had a really good O, as well.

That loss knocked them out of contention as FSWho went undefeated, & Auburn had an early season “quality loss” against a top 10 team & then went on to beat #24 Ole Miss, #7 TAMU, #25 UGA, #1 Bama, #5 Mizzou.
 
drewm3i said:
I think this offense hasn't quite reached its potential yet tbh. We will see how good it is when we absolutely need it to be. You have seen glimpses against VT, Cal, and Duke: but only glimpses.
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If we play how we did in the second half against Duke consistently, I don’t see anyone stopping this offense more than 4 times in a game. Our running game is good right now. The threat of Martinez or Fletcher forcing 7 games into the box, makes Ward nearly unstoppable.
 
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skyman said:
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..
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Exactly, those spread teams back in the day like those Mike Leach teams put up some numbers. Not sure what system John Jenkins had at Houston Cougars but they put up some numbers in 1990. Jenkins came in to Miami in 1991 with his top offense and got killed 40-10. Jenkins did well with Jim Kelly with the Houston Gamblers years before.

John Jenkins
(11 games) 5,140—David Klingler, Houston, 1990 (completed 374 of 643)
Mike Leach
(12 games) 5,336—B.J. Symons, Texas Tech, 2003 (completed 429 of 666)
(13 games) 5,833—B.J. Symons, Texas Tech, 2003 (completed 470 of 719)
 
DTP said:
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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Put Cam Ward on the 2000 or 2001 UM team with all of those great WRs, TEs and running backs and that would be the greatest all time.

Miami 2001 had that great defense that scored I think 7 TDs that year. If the defense can get the other team 3 and out, it would leave the offense more time to score.

It drives me crazy to see our defense just let other teams drive up and down the field keeping Ward on the side line when he could be adding up the yards and TDs even more. Just tackle and stop playing five yards off their WRs giving them easy first downs.
 
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OptimusCreampie said:
You sat on your account for 11 years for that take?
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I actually did not not remember I set up an account all those years ago. Just the other day I decided to make one and apparently I already had. Have not visited this site for years. Also that Nebraska team averaged 48 points a game. Maybe a little less on offense. But considering the era they played in it was historic.
 
AlexCane said:
Man, those numbers are so stupid I thought you might have used his career stats as opposed to single season. How in the world did he throw 60 touchdowns in 1 season?!

If we play 6 more games, Cam would have to throw 31 TDs to tie.
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He threw for 950+ yards and 12tds with 0 ints in the two playoff games. Absolutely nuts.

Our offense is really, really good and I expect it to get even better as we finish up the year. Lots of room for improvement with the running game/TEs in passing game/opportunities for Brown & George to shine at WR/actually connecting on a freaking deep shot (swear we are 1-40 on them so far lol).

Can't wait to see where we stack up EoY
 
Rellyrell said:
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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Could you pull up 2008 Okla, The Bradford, Murray Gresham crew.. That offense was fun to watch, wonder how they stack up with these guys. One of top offenses ever, at time they broke a ton of records, score 60 point multiple games straight, had 4k passer with TWO 1k rushers, and 1k receiver while Gresham missed 1k by like 50 yards. One of GOAT units in CFB history..
 
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