Initial thoughts: 1) Defense. Speed, speed, speed. Defense line much improved, even without returning starters. 2) Offense: much better after they stopped asking Worley to chuck down the sidelines 45 yards. Dink, dunk, run. 3) Kicking: FG kicker scares me. That first miss was bad. Really bad. He also had one line drive PAT. But, looked better after that. And kickoffs were shortish. But the coverage was much better. Again, speed does that for you. 4) Return game: hard to tell, don't remember a non-fair catch punt return and only got two kick off returns the whole game. I called 7-5 for the season, and everything I saw tonight makes me feel even better about my prediction (not that it was special, a lot of people made the same pick).
Thought the tackling was solid. And, when it wasn't, there were a ton of orange jerseys there to clean it up. Utah State doesn't have SEC speed, but it was nice to see that we do.
It was refreshing to see Worley tuck it and run a few times. He also did a good job of not trying to force anything. AJ is a BEAST!
