What's learned from playing Kent State?

Jul 29, 2017, 12:52 AM

With this year's first game being against an opponent that is no where near the talent and recruiting of Clemson, I expect a win first off. Second, Troy's coach ( last year ) in the coaching profession is an up and comer and had his team ready to knock off Clemson with some skilled players. Even the best offense took a little while to get rolling on all four cylinders as we all can remember. This year however, Kent State is not that type of opponent IMO from research, so it will give way for some things to come to fruition. Defense is just going to be too smothering for their tier of school and players for this game. We'll do what ever it takes to score the points to win. With that, Here are my guesses:

1. Rotation of QB's, Rotation of WR's and RB's for different play options. Showcase of strengths, weaknesses & decision making by QB's. While testing arm strength and accuracy, our young RB's showing what they can do now & be difference makers this season in this game would be great. Our defense will afford us that, offense to keep T/O margin low.

2. Speaking of Defense, even the big boys in and out of conference can't hang with this D-Line, and we're still more solid than any NC State team. While they "may" have a pretty good season because of their defense, we will with ours also. Just further because ours is better, even without orange tinted glasses on. National Championship Caliber Defense against a good defense ( I know about their DE's) & , we know which one wins that battle. Best D-Line in the country, Championship tested & approved.

3. With Proven RB Veterans returning, is Feaster and Travis gonna get in on some sweeps or even power runs to see what they can do. Fuller can carry a load. We may be run heavy at times IMO, which won't be a bad thing. Give some time for QB to get acclimated. This Offensive line bolsters some battle tested big men, we all know their names. Even the rising sophomores and juniors played in the Fiesta Bowl & NCG.

Going into Auburn game we will know what plays can be run by certain QB's in live game action. We all know that they have certain strengths. One has the complete package maybe not developed yet, we just don't know if maybe we have two that do, giving the benefit of the doubt. It seems it will come down to two, that's just my guess. It's a great luxury to have that many teams wish they had, may the best man win. May come with some mistakes at first, but Swinney will have the man in that can win the game. If KB is the man in the Fall, then that's great. If another is, great. We'll also give some confidence to a young WR core, time for veterans to get used to new QB's, a talented stable of RB's and of course another chance for this salty D-Line to live in the backfield of our opponents taking out QB's while the LB core stuffs the run.

My take

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