The way I look at it, we've got two Coordinators that are improvements over last year, an offense that, when Austen was HEALTHY last year, and was the full time #1, he puts up gaudy numbers. He may throw a pick or two, but in his last two games last year, he went 67 for 99 with 766 yds and 5 TD. 860 total yards of offense once he got clicking in those last two games. His worst games were splitting time with Bates and when he had a bum shoulder against Baylor and didn't practice the week before the Nebraska game. The offense has a ****ton of weapons, including 4 guys that could see time at RB tonight, and a WR corps that probably features Money as its best weapon, followed by Marquis, Sed and Darks. Lenz will get catches, and Zitek and Williams will get play.
Defense will be bolstered by changing from a system that was a horrible fit and relied on schemes that needed better athletes than we have. We have capable players. Hopefully tonight we get to see what guys like AJ Klein can do.