With all of the talk around the quarterback, its easy to overlook how far the defense has come along with this season
last season was how poor the defense was and the effort on the field. As a result, head coach Billy Napier was forced to let go of two staffers on that side of the ball and find suitable replacements to help correct this problem.
The only reason that number wasn’t higher is because they played against Samford, who only scored seven points. When pitted against Power 4 opponents, it gave up 41 points to Miami, 33 to Texas A&M and 28 to a poor Mississippi State team.Since then though, the Gators have been on a different level. The defense has racked up 22 sacks over their last seven games, which brings their season total to 30. These 30 sacks have them tied for 23rd nationally in total team sacks.
One area that has only marginally improved since the first four games are the points. They’ve gone from allowing 27.3 points to 24.6 points per game. However, of the 172 points allowed during this period, 83 of them were surrendered to Georgia and Texas.
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