How Tennessee and Texas A&M’s Unconventional Defense Is Silently Shaking Up College Football

How Tennessee and Texas A&M’s Unconventional Defense Is Silently Shaking Up College Football

It stands to reason that a lot of defenses focus on limiting the number of 3-pointers opponents can shoot. If you run players off the line, you’ll take away a lot of valuable shots.

But several teams have adopted a different approach this season to some success, and there are no better examples of that than Tennessee and Texas A&M, who face off Saturday in Bryan-College Station.

Tennessee allows the fourth-most 3-point attempts per game among major conference teams and Texas A&M allows the fifth-most. Although the two teams go about allowing 3s in different ways, they’ve both decided to prioritize different parts of their defense over limiting 3-pointers.

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