When Oklahoma meets Georgia in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual on Monday, it will be a "styles make fights" battle in the truest sense. There's Georgia, with its elite defense and run-heavy, pro-style offense, against the Sooners, running a version of the offense that Hal Mumme and Mike Leach once cooked up at Iowa Wesleyan and Valdosta State.
As the Air Raid's prevalence grew in college football over the past two decades, its champions were positioned opposite its share of critics, who pointed to its effect on its teams' defenses, the lesser frequency at which such teams ran the football and, ultimately, the difficulty winning titles at the FBS levels by teams that used it.