Clemson Football: LSU’s defense eerily similar to 2015 Tiger defense
The Clemson football offense will look to put up some points against LSU’s defense Monday night. There’s something familiar, honestly.
The Clemson football team will take on the LSU Tigers Monday night in the National Championship game.
The game is slated to kickoff at 8 p.m. on ESPN. The network will have a multitude of broadcasts to cover the match-up from every single angle.
As we continued to prepare for the upcoming game, we found something strange that made a lot of sense when describing that LSU defense.
William Qualkinbush, show host on The Roar and play-by-play talent for Clemson Athletics, posted a stat comparison between the 2015 Clemson football defense and the 2019 LSU defense. The similarities are crazy.
https://twitter.com/QualkTalk/status/1215670066181812225?s=20
Thoughts:
LSU and the 2015 Clemson defense are almost identical when you look at basically every single statistical category.
It’s interesting because you can see those similarities play out on film when you look for them. LSU is relatively strong at taking away the run (3.6 YPC/attempt), but the Tigers give up a ton of big plays. That was the Achilles heel for Clemson in 2015. Brent Venables’ unit would have teams behind the lines and then just couldn’t come away with a stop. Instead, the Tigers would give up a huge play that resulted in a touchdown or, at the very least, a momentum-swinging first down.
Hello, LSU defense.
The 2019 LSU defense has given up 59 plays of 20-plus yards or more and eight plays of 50-plus yards or more, according to Qualkinbush.
There’s plenty of talent across the field for LSU- just as there was in 2015 for Clemson- but something just isn’t clicking all the way, especially against a formidable passing attack.
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2015 Clemson struggled against quarterbacks who could get the ball out quick to play-makers and the same is true with that 2019 LSU defensive unit. It will be interesting to see what happens, but this is certainly an intriguing statistic as we head into the match-up.