Cary, I think we agree on the rest, but you know me and I like to going into detail or arguing about the minutiea.
Notre Dame (1-3)
Total Offense Rank: 46th Scoring Offense Rank: 43rd
Total Defense Rank: 103rd Scoring Defense Rank: 101st
Notre Dame 47 @ Texas 50 2OT
Notre Dame 39 Nevada 10
Notre Dame 28 Michigan State 36
Notre Dame 35 Duke 38
Oklahoma State (2-2)
Total Offense Rank: 41st Scoring Offense Rank: 37th
Total Defense Rank: 87th Scoring Defense Rank: 72nd
Oklahoma State 61 Southeastern Louisiana 7
Oklahoma State 27 Central Michigan 30
Oklahoma State 45 Pittsburgh 38
Oklahoma State 24 @ Baylor 35
Now truth be told, both the Notre Dame and Okie State defenses are somewhere between bad and terrible. We are not halfway through the season, so notre dame's defense may pass okie state, but right now Notre Dame's is statistically worse. Plus Duke had previously only scored 14 and 13 points on wake forest and northwestern. Additionally, Michigan State only scored 6 on Wisconsin and 28 on Furman! While I do believe our offense has improved and is good, we have faced defenses outside of the top 100 in Notre Dame, Cal and Utep. Okie State also got to see our offense last week with Baylor so they will have another week of preparing for something similar. I think this will be our biggest defensive challenge to our offense to date (and we wont have perkins). That said, we should and probably will still score. Will we score enough? I have no idea.
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