Your thesis assumes that scoring more points = better offense or better team (by proxy from better conference). It doesn't. Stanford scores more points than almost all SEC teams almost every week. Don't think for a second that Stanford is better than any team in the SEC.
No one in the SEC tries to put up 50 any week. It isn't their style.
I guarantee you that LSU looked at that stat and said, "HOw THE FUCK DID WE LET THEM SCORE 17 ON US?!?!?!?"
SEC teams try to pound the shit out of each other. PAC10 teams go around defenses.
SC's first couple scores against Arky last year were immediate. They spent the next one driving the field, pounding it into the line, and taking up clock.
This year, LSU didn't manage 50 even against ULL. They had the same exact score against Arizona, and I fully expect SC to score more than that. I'll be surprised if they don't.
This does not mean LSU's offense is bad. It means they pound the ball, run the clock, and go through people instead of around.
PAC 10 teams regularly put up 30-50 on each other. They throw around and over defenses. If they miss, the clock stops. Oregon put up 14 in what, 30 secs last week? It took LSU 4 minutes to have 2 shots at the endzone at the end of the Auburn game. It's a different style of play.
I don't believe for a moment that Auburn has a bad offense. Mississippi St doesn't have a bad defense at all, and Auburn dropped 34 on em. With a bruising style.
These teams just don't make it a point to win by 70. USC with Leinart & Bush was an exceptional team, so you can use that as a benchmark if you want to, but I would prefer to see a sort of pac 10 vs sec challenge (like the ACC Big 10 challenge in CBB) before I just decide one conference isn't quite as dominant because of lower scores.
I'm no homer here, either. I'm an acc guy who went to NCSU. I've bet against my team for 4 weeks now, and won all 3. i fully expect the wolfpack to lose this week too, and I recognize that my conference is WAY down this year.
I apologize if this is coming across as angrily argumentative. It's not what I mean. I'm enjoying the conversation, and I appreciate the alternative point of view. I also fully mean it when I say I know I could be absolutely wrong. I was wrong about quite a lot of things in week 3.
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