Bill Landis

So it's just going to, it's going to be a little more difficult and probably take a little more time.

Yeah, shout out to new football SID, Will Pantages, for making sure you got that question in.

Yeah, yeah.

I think it's hard to because...

football coaches i think just try to avoid like the the good answers to questions like that because then you start getting into like hey we want to blitz more we're going to be a little more whatever exotic or and they just don't want to give that stuff away that's like just the kind of thing we're going to have to wait and see i think and i don't think you're i don't think you just you're not going to get ryan day and matt patricia to like

say anything that borders on the criticism of a defense that gave up nine points per game yeah last year it's like sure you thought we should have had more tackles for lost great we gave up nine points per game and i think i know i i actually don't think that's an unreasonable answer if you wanted to just fall back on it because not a lot of teams in modern college football have allowed only nine points per game right

Yeah, yeah.

Again, I think hard to be that introspective when you were as good as they were.

I was looking up some of these numbers as you were talking.

I guess the three defenses you want to compare them to the most are Indiana, Texas Tech, Miami.

All those defenses did play more total plays than Ohio State and Indiana and Miami because they played a few more games than Ohio State did on a per-game basis.

Indiana only played one more play per game than Ohio State did.

Ohio State averaged 57.2 defensive plays per game.

Indiana was 58.7.

Miami and Texas Tech were more like 10 more plays per game.

Miami actually, in the end, because it went to the national championship, had more defensive snaps than any team in the country.

They had over 1,000.

But it's not like they were getting 20 more plays per game.

And if you think of it more as a percentage, I don't really care how many plays per game you got.

It is a fact.