The offense will move the ball, but will continue to lack consistent big play explosiveness. No reason to believe the running game will not continue to be ordinary. So probably a very competent, but not championship level type offense (top 50ish). I think it will look a lot like last season.

Defensively will be a little better than last year. We won't lose to ODU again, but Pitt will hammer again for sure, and any other program with a power running game. That kind of thing doesn't get fixed in one off season, and I DON'T CARE who the DC is. Ain't happening. The defense bottomed out to a 30-40 year low, so it could take a couple years to come back from that. Still I expect the defense will definitely "improve', but expectations need to be realistic.

The "yeah, I know there were a bunch of reasons for the defensive collapse, but Bud Foster....." mantra I have no respect for. It's the laziest of takes.



[Post edited by Techsupport at 04/02/2019 2:24PM]