I agree that good defense is vital to winning football. Usually the championship level teams rank high in the defensive national statistics. However, with the way football is played today with spread offenses, even very good defenses get torched from time to time. The biggest issue to me in the RU/KSU game was the speed differential between the KSU skill players and RU’s defenders. The KSU HC said their plan was to get the RU LBs and DBs to play in space. They thought they had a big advantage there and it was apparent.