Defensive Matchups
Both defenses rank in the top ten, nationally, in both total defense and scoring defense.
Heading into the game, Auburn was ranked sixth in scoring defense, allowing an average of just 16.7 points per game, and eighth in total defense, giving up only 298.33 yards per game. Clemson was ranked sixth in total defense, giving up only 297.08 yards per game, and tenth in scoring defense, allowing an average of just 18.3 points per game.
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Famous quotes containing the word defensive:
“What is clear is that Christianity directed increased attention to childhood. For the first time in history it seemed important to decide what the moral status of children was. In the midst of this sometimes excessive concern, a new sympathy for children was promoted. Sometimes this meant criticizing adults. . . . So far as parents were put on the defensive in this way, the beginning of the Christian era marks a revolution in the child’s status.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)