I'm a little worried about Herman and Fuente's defenses.
Houston's D has done pretty well.
Points Allowed: 21.3
Yards Allowed: 375.6
New coach, new system and all things considered, not that bad. Also, Houston has been doing pretty well against their competition. Against 3 opponents, when they held at least a 21 point lead going into the 4th Quarter, those teams scored 28 bullchit points when the game was already over.
As for Memphis, their D was pretty darn good last season. They had the 11th best Scoring D and 28th best Total D. They then lost their DC (to Missouri) and lost 8 starters on D. This isn't so easy to reload at Memphis.
I give Fuente credit, he assembles a good staff. He found the Safety coach at Missouri, never was a DC, the guy ended up doing a nice job as DC at Missouri. Now Odom is at Missouri, their D is the 6th best scoring D and 9th best total D.