Malzahn has been overrated for a long time.
In his career at Auburn, he's 35-25 in conference play. His first year, he took Auburn to the Championship Game (with another coach's players). His offense that year was 72% run. Just think about that vs what we see today. Since that year, he has not had a season with less than 4 losses....and his offenses are usually heavy run-base, 63-66%.
Coming into this season, i saw the following stats from a guy on reddit who did a breakdown:
In games against ranked opponents, Gus is 19-24.
Against top 15 opponents Gus is 10-18.
And against top 10 opponents, Gus Malzahn is 8-17.
So $6.8M buys what exactly?