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Defenses dominate season's first month

By Chris Fowler
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, September 28, 2006

It's obvious from watching a month of football that this season's championship chase is all about defense. Check out the top dozen teams in the rankings. With only two exceptions, they are winning mostly with defense, a departure from what we saw the last couple of years, when potent offensive attacks at USC and Texas set the tone. Ohio State's weakness was supposed to be its new faces on defense. Instead, the Bucks have been carried so far by their D, while the touted offense has been just goo ...

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