Why keep emphasizing the timing of the defense, improving its ranking? Of course they got better against the lesser teams .
You realize it worked the opposite way for the conference teams who played cupcakes in OOC games, right? Like Michigan, who many were quoting as a great defensive team throughout the year….which of course would look like such when playing West Mich, Northern ILL, 5-8 Rutgers, 3-9 NW, 3-9 Nebraska, 4-8 Washington in 6 of its first 7 games…and the 7th game being offensively challenged Wisky which we well knew…
I agree our schedule was easier compared to past this years but the “when the schedule got easier” is a misleading argument