After watching the dearth of any defense in the Civil War last night, it made me wonder about the PAC-10 defenses.  Well, not wonder so much – I have a pretty good idea about them after watching a couple of dozen games. If you didn’t watch the game, there were only five punts but fifteen kickoffs.  Not exactly a defensive slugfest.

That Oregon defense you saw last night is the best ranked rush defense Toby Gerhart has played all year.  They held him to 96 yards in a loss.  Freshman LaMichael James torched them for 166 last night and their four rushers combined for 290 yards.

The only OOC defense he played that had a pulse (being generous to 5-7 Wake Forest) held him to 82 yards while beating Stanford.  The week before the Stanford game, Wake Forest gave up over 200 yards rushing in their loss to Baylor.  During the season they also gave up 338 yards running in a loss to Navy and 149 yards to Jermaine Thomas in their loss to Florida State.

Gerhart rushed for 980 of his yards against teams that went a combined 28-54.  If we’ve truly decided that opponents and defenses don’t matter, why aren’t we considering Kellen Moore?