No, OSU's offense led to a Big12 Champ and BCS win. OSU's defense survived.
OSU Pass Def Eff - #20 (115 YPG)
KSU Pass Def Eff - #76 (131 YPG)
OSU Run Def - #90 (184 YPG)
KSU Run Def - #37 (131 YPG)
OSU Tackle for Loss - #24
KSU Tackle for Loss - #92
OSU Def Sacks - #36
KSU Def Sacks - #84
OSU RZ Def - #12
KSU RZ Def - #77
I would say we "survived" pretty well.
Compairing OSU's defense to KSU defense doesn't make your point. KSU's defense didn't lead KSU to a 10-3 record and the Cotton Bowl last year either. You said OSU's defense lead them to their record/bowl. That's not true. The offense clearly lead the way for the team. OSU's defense is middle of the pack. Middle of the pack defense's don't lead you to a 12-1 record.
It was a bad choice of words. What I meant was, the defense was "good enough" to win them a BCS bowl. I wasn't insinuating that the defense won our games last year, it was definitely our offense. However, our defense wasn't as bad as everyone thinks it was. They keep looking at the 107th ranked Total Defense stats and say "OMG, they suck". What they don't take into account was the number of plays our defense was on the field. It's not like our 1st team defense was playing four quarters and couldn't get the opposing offenses off the field. We built up early leads this year and often and emptied the bench to get our backups some playing time.
1. Against ULaLa we played 2's/3's after going up 44-10 in the 3rd Qtr and the backups surrendered 24pts.
2. Against Arizona the starting defense only allowed 7pts through 3 Qtrs.
3. Tulsa game didn't kickoff until 12:15am and didn't end until 3:30am because of a rain delay. Pokes up 45-6 in the 3rd Qtr. We knew Tulsa wanted to throw the ball so they sold out to stop the pass and force them to run. OSU's 1st team defense forced 4 fumbles before halftime. Of the 365 rushing yards by Tulsa, only 108 were on the 1st team D.
4. Against A&M, Tannehill was their leading rusher. 7 carries for 69yds and a TD (65yds and the TD were on one busted play). We were down 20-3 at the half, needless to say, the backup DE's got in the game on 3rd down.
5. Our 2's were on the field in the 2nd Qtr after we were up 42-7 against your in state rival Jayhawks. Our 3's and walkon's played after halftime and gave up 21pts enroute to a 70-28 win.
6. Weeden struggled in the 1st half against UT. Similar to the A&M game, DE's/DT's were rotated often because UT was running between the tackles every play. Some backups got rotated in but this 26pts given up fell soley on starters.
7. Against Mizz, Bill Young wanted them to force Franklin into throwing the ball (""They gave us what we had been working on all week," defensive end Jamie Blatnick said. "When we see what we've prepared for it works out for us.". Along with his 184yds passing he also accumulated 3 interceptions and lost a fumble.
8. Up 49-3 in the 3rd Qtr against Baylor we emptied the bench. 1st team defense held RG3 to 152yds passing, 2 interceptions, and 0 points in 1st half. Backups giveup 273yds passing and 24 points in the 2nd half.
9. Klein went beast mode. Nothing much to say about this. We were fortunate he didn't connect on those last 3 passes inside the 5. Because I KNOW, Snyder would've gone for the 2 on a QB keeper up the gut and would've scored.
10. Up 49-0 early in the 3rd, same as KU and emptied the bench. 2's/3's/walkons still held TT's offense to 0 points.
11. ISU game was well......
12. During Bedlam, Gundy substituted in the Seniors early in the 3rd after jumping out to a 44-3 lead. Gave up 172 passing yards to Jones in 3 Qtrs while forcing 2 fumbles, recording 3 sacks and 1 interception.
As you can see our defense was actually quite good, when they played. If you take out the garbage time yardage and points
http://footballoutsiders.com/stats/feiyou would be quite suprised on how well our defense actually performed. And to bring back as many starters we are, you can see why we are excited about our defense this year.
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