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College Football: Power Ranking the AP Top 25 Defenses Going Into Week 3

Article By on 16th September, 2010

... 1999 have in common?

I'll save you the suspense, and say that every single national champion dating back to the 1999 Florida State Seminoles had a scoring defense ranked in the top 20.

In fact, every single one of those teams had a scoring defense ranked in the national top 10, short of LSU in 2007. In that year, the Tigers were No. 17.

At this point, you might argue that those teams also probably all had top 20 scoring offenses. However, in that assumption you'd be wrong.

Going back to 1999, three national champions did not have top 20 scoring offenses: 2009 Alabama was No. 22, 2006 Florida was No. 23, and 2002 Ohio State was No. 41. Furthermore, 2003 LSU was barely in the top 20, as they were No. 19.

In the end, it go...

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