All I know is that whatever we're doing on offense is working fine.
In the S&P+ ratings (which take into account the opponent unit strengths and eliminate garbage time), our offense is 8th in the country. Yours is No. 1. Our defense is No. 1, and yours is No. 7. If you look at the FEI, which does the same thing with opponent strength and garbage time, our offense actually ranks just ahead of yours (19th vs. 23rd), and your defense ranks right behind ours (7th vs. 8th).
The F/+ ranking combines the two systems. In that ranking, our offense is 13th vs. 10th for you. Your defense is 5th, and ours is 3rd. In the overall team rankings, this is how we stack up.
S&P+ - Ole Miss 2, MSU 3
FEI - Ole Miss 2, MSU 6
F/+ - Ole Miss 1, MSU 2
It's just funny to me that our fans try to act like your defense is slop, and yours try to act like our offense is slop.
The numbers tend to suggest that each of our "weaknesses" aren't really weak at all...and in reality, we probably have 2 of the best teams in college football this year, even if having to deal with your rival having historic level success at the same time you are bugs the crap out of a lot of our fans.
Neither team is perfect, but no team ever is. We're both about as good as you can get though. It doesn't mean we'll both be 11-0 in the Egg Bowl and playing a rematch in the national title game, but that's not a completely unrealistic possibility. I know some of our fans have talked about the 'what if' of those scenarios before, but now that those scenarios have gone from 'never would happen' to 'reasonable chance', fans are freaking out just a little bit, because it's not fun to share the spotlight with your rival.
