I agree. In some of the biggest games, our defense played great in spurts and sometimes for the majority of the game, only to give up a big quarter. For example, Okie State and Tech had almost 50% of their total offense in the 1Q and 4Q, respectively. If you normalize Tech and Okie State based on the other 3Qs (and assuming my math right), Okie State would have had 333 yards and Tech 433. Both well under their averages. WVU had a quarter that accounted for over a third of their total yardage, which is admittedly a bit more balanced. (WVU had 194 of their 578 yards in the 1Q.)
But given how close the games to Okie State and WVU were, we didn't need much more out of our defense -- like maybe just one more stop -- to get a win in each game. And, as they've performed well enough at times there is reason to think that at least slight imrpovement is easily within reach, at least in my opinion.
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Agree x 2
Last edited: Nov 14, 2018