Defense on third down? What about the offense? Once again the "rule" of "you cannot criticize the Oregon offense as much as the defense" rears its ugly head with this column. So much for balanced coverage / writing. 

Here is the third down stat from the game which Steve Mims apparently ignored or chose not to make it a part of third down issues in general regarding the game.

The Oregon OFFENSE was 1 / 11 on third down against the LOWEST rated third down defense(#130) in the country...ASU! So that no impact the outcome and instead an entire column needed to be written analyzing the defense?! Lousy media effort.