There's a difference between teams that are good at running the football and teams that are good at pounding it.

Especially in this new-fangled eon of football, where "read option" is the weapon du jour, the difference between "ground attack" and "ground-and-pound" has never been quite so distinct.

Reading the defensive end then electing to dart in the opposite direction isn't hard-nose football. It's smart football and it's good football, but physical it is not.

In an era where most terms opt to run away from opponents, however, some old-school BCS squads still run through them.

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