The media and casual fans narrative around the 3-3-5 defense?

It's mainly because they are bored since the spread is 12.5 and there really aren't any other interesting narratives to push other than "David vs Goliath" etc.

UGA, Alabama, LSU, and many many other teams run it all the time using hybrid safety/linebackers we’ve come to call Star. It’s rise in usage isn’t remotely new either it started in the early 2000s as a way to combat the rise in pass attempts and adoption of air raid concepts.

Is it because TCU runs a more traditional true 3-3-5 (mostly because they simply don’t have a talent to play a roving star position) that we are supposed to be in awe of it?

They have to focus on something to hype up the viewers, I suppose.

The media should push the Hypnotoad narrative and from there do a tie in to benefits of DMT.

WVU ran it decades ago.

If you have good coaching and someone capable of filling out the two most important roles in it, both downhill and coverage safeties, it’s a great idea for less talented teams to take on more talented offenses. Much more so than just coming out in bad 4-3 or 3-4 and getting mashed. But again, it’s not new not even remotely, lol.

And it really only works when that more talented team doesn’t have 2 definite maybe 3 future 1st round tight ends and amazing an o line that could simply line up and run it 50 times and destroy you or play action at their literal leisure for major chunk plays.

Mich gameplan was absolutely rock solid outside of stupid trick plays. They couldn’t overcome a 28 point handicap on 4 gift wrapped turnovers. Which yes the 3-3-5 does thrive and maybe even depend on turnovers but none of the 4 were a result of Mich failure to gameplan or TCU gameplanning well. If I was feeling generous I’d give TCU 1 out of 4 and that was one of McCarthys pick 6s where the defender did make a solid play on the ball but JJ stared the receiver down like a deer for 4 seconds first.

All of that and they still almost came back and scored like 34 or something in the second half alone. They were absolutely ready for this never before seen defense.

I’d bet a lot of money and feel nearly certain they intended to do what you say k state did and impose their will on TCU but had to switch on the fly and air it out when they got down from dumbassery

Yeah it is a weird narrative.

A 3 Stack is becoming more and more common.

Yes all of that is true but my original intention of this thread wasn’t to comment on the effectiveness of a 3-3-5 merely to call attention to the ludicrous talk everywhere heralding it as some sort of recent new innovation no one ever thought of before.

That said football is a game of matchups a less talented team running a true 3-3-5 (as opposed to its multiple variations utilizing a Star UGA and 40 other teams use) is an absolutely horrible matchup for the personal and scheme of an offense like UGA.