orangebloodgmc
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Very few SEC teams can do that any more. Because of the routinely stout size and quickness of SEC defenses.
So you don't see many using the I any more. Who last year? Bama and Arky? Anyone else? I don't recall.
Now, if you're Michigan in the B10, and six of your IN-CONFERENCE games are Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue, and Mich St, before you even add in the OOC cupcake games ... then sure, in that case make the I formation your mainstay. Because your OLine is going to have 50 pounds per player on about three-fourths of the defenses you play all season. Works there.
Just not so well in the SEC, where defenses are routinely BIG. (yes, irony intended)
Am not lobbying for one offensive approach over another, but am just reporting that LSU still very much uses a true fullback.
I honestly don't remember what percentage of the time they were under center vs. dropped back in some form of 'gun.
And they have been one of the very best run offenses in the conference in recent years ... but relatively weak in passing.
All of this is up in the air with their new OC, Matt Canada.
Supposedly the O will now use more motion, shifts, jet sweeps ... we'll see.