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<blockquote data-quote="TheGridironGeek" data-source="post: 160840" data-attributes="member: 1898"><p>No I mean in the history of football. The 2014's offense killed every other offense in the last 5 years statistically per-drive. It's only because the teams you mentioned were so wide-open and have so many more possessions that they scored more points than GT. And, this is the most offensively prolific era there has been.</p><p></p><p>There have been historically-great passing teams from mid-major programs in other eras, like Houston for instance, but they were not playing teams at the modern ACC level. You can only compare last year's GT offense to great seasons by legends of the past from Oklahoma, Nebraska, Florida etc. If that sounds swell-headed it's not, because imagine those teams with average-or-worse defenses and you've got what Tech had last year. Offense is only one unit.</p><p></p><p>And if we're judging actual greatness and not just stats/effectiveness then the historic teams are still A1 because they dominated relative to the era. Player management and the rule book has "juiced the football" more and more over time. So there's no realistic comparison to be made to any team from the 00's backward, but yes, counting since 2009, the 2014 Jackets team had statistically the most effective O in the recent era (if I understand the stats) by a WIDE margin.</p><p></p><p>I do hope in 2040 we're not watching Vanderbilt beat visiting Clavius Academy 95-64 in a "great defensive struggle," but...different strokes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheGridironGeek, post: 160840, member: 1898"] No I mean in the history of football. The 2014's offense killed every other offense in the last 5 years statistically per-drive. It's only because the teams you mentioned were so wide-open and have so many more possessions that they scored more points than GT. And, this is the most offensively prolific era there has been. There have been historically-great passing teams from mid-major programs in other eras, like Houston for instance, but they were not playing teams at the modern ACC level. You can only compare last year's GT offense to great seasons by legends of the past from Oklahoma, Nebraska, Florida etc. If that sounds swell-headed it's not, because imagine those teams with average-or-worse defenses and you've got what Tech had last year. Offense is only one unit. And if we're judging actual greatness and not just stats/effectiveness then the historic teams are still A1 because they dominated relative to the era. Player management and the rule book has "juiced the football" more and more over time. So there's no realistic comparison to be made to any team from the 00's backward, but yes, counting since 2009, the 2014 Jackets team had statistically the most effective O in the recent era (if I understand the stats) by a WIDE margin. I do hope in 2040 we're not watching Vanderbilt beat visiting Clavius Academy 95-64 in a "great defensive struggle," but...different strokes. [/QUOTE]
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