In a fair fight I believe that.
But with the rules today. I feel they keep handicapping the great defenses.
For years the best players played on offense. But in the 80s and 90s we saw a mass exodus of truly elite players wanting to play defense vs offense. You always had your sensations before that. But not in the quality of numbers like you did at that point.
Over the decades since then the NCAA seems to keep just keep making rules that favor the offense over the defense. Look at how bad taunting, roughing, and targeting calls have got.
While I agree. Keeping an opponent from scoring is an easy bullet point to winning. Look at the national championship teams in the last 5 years. Tell me which one was defense superior vs their offense. Since the playoff started. The lowest scoring winning score was Bama over Georgia 26-23. The next closest is 35-31. Since those two games the scores have been 44-16, 42-25, and 52-24.