Positives: Jordan, Sewell, the secondary not getting absolutely shellacked (really young, playing against very veteran very talented passing team)… The defense as a whole is solid as usual. Redding made a field goal. Ultimately, the outcome wasn’t nearly as bad as it felt. We lost by two scores to a team with more experience (both in this season and the last previous seasons).
Negatives: offensive line, again, for the millionth time in a row, was bad bad bad. The quarterbacks are not as good as what we were led to believe (Bentley throws another pick, while tossing an ill-advised bomb while on the run) not even close, our running backs aside from Jordan have seemingly not improved one bit since last year, brumfield still lacks vision, and Willmore can’t gain yards when he is hit at the line of scrimmage. Very vanilla game plan on offense. No creativity on first down. It seemed like Both Bentley and Ludwig had absolutely no faith in the passing game, a bunch of runs, check downs, and desperation bombs into triple coverage.
Question marks: Why is the offensive line so bad? Is it because they’ve had COVID issues and haven’t practiced as a unit much? Is it because they suck? Is it bad coaching?
Can Bentley play better with more time to throw, and more preparation as the starter going into next week (just assuming Rising is out next week), or is he just terrible in general? It is really hard to tell.
Utah @ 
Mississippi State 
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