re: 3 months from today will Mike Davis run for 200+ yards against the Aggies?

Wat about the D in the 2nd half? How were they against Duke?

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Something can be said for experience, sure. But in your last game against Duke the defense was one of the worst I've ever seen. I don't expect them to be "much improved" a mere 8 months later. They might go from 14th in the league to 12th or so.

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Experience is always a major factor, but even moreso here because we had so many true freshman out on the field. And w/r/t the Chicken Bowl, our best defender, Darian Claiborne, was suspended for that game.

But the biggest difference, imo, will be in the pass rush. Last year we essentially only had an injured Julien Obioha and a rail-thin Daeshon Hall (6'6", 220#) to man the edge. Now Hall is up to 250, Myles Garrett is coming in at 260, and Qualen Cunningham can come in on passing downs.

We're still going to be a young defense, but we were playing last year with basically one good freshman defensive class, and that's it. Mike Sherman left a lot of offensive firepower to Kevin Sumlin, but almost none on defense. No one is saying we're going to be elite, just that we have a good chance to be an average defense. Considering Snyder has already fielded an average (at worst) defense in 2012, I'm not sure why that seems so outlandish.