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Before they played us, Pitt played Virginia, Ohio, Penn State, UCF, Delaware, Duke, and Syracuse. For perspective, at that same point Alabama had played Duke, New Mexico State, South Carolina, Southern Missississippi, Mississippi, Texas A&M, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Honestly, not much of a...

True. People often point to other freshmen linemen doing well for other teams and claim that the UM linemen should be able to as well. Difference is in most of the other cases, there are experienced linemen lined up next to them helping to direct them, helping to clean up their mistakes. Our...

True. It was a whole lot of young, inexperienced players trying to learn at the same time. That leads to a lot of mistakes. But it also leads to what could become a very cohesive, strong unit in the future.

Against UF physicality was not as much a problem as our Oline looking confused, being slow to react after the snap, leaving guys unblocked while double-teaming others, etc. Yes, we were outmatched physically as well, but that was the least of the issues. Since then the Oline has shown they can...