Saying that third down is important isn't a newsflash. But against Texas A&M's defense, the pressure of succeeding on third down is heightened.
It’s where you make your money as a defense. You either force a punt and get the ball back into the hands of your offense, or you give up a fresh set of downs and let your opponent keep driving down the field.After having played New Mexico, Miami and Louisiana-Munroe, the Aggies boast the third-best third-down defense in the country allowing their opponents to convert just seven of 34 third-down plays, good for a conversion percentage of just 20.6%.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the greater the average distance to go on third down, the harder it’s been for Auburn to convert. Conversely, when the line to gain was more than five yards away, the Tigers converted just 33% of the time. Meanwhile, if a defense doesn’t send an additional defender to the box and instead drops back into coverage, it opens the door for a quarterback to call his own number and take off running.
If we ignore the Cal game and all its wonkiness for the sake of this argument, we’re left with two distinctly different offensive showcases.
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