The only other thing I'll say is that in all my years of watching college football....what we saw today is common, especially when good teams play overmatched opponents early in the year. I'm not going to worry about it yet.
Now if FSU lights us up for 40.....that's a different story. Some of you need to gain a little perspective...football is funny sometimes and quality of opponent really does play a role in how engaged and concentrated guys are.
Have to agree to an extent...some of our best teams, going back into the '80's, we still just barely squeaked by some really weak opponents. I kind of remember a bunch of us at somebody's apartment during one of our best seasons, and we were trailing somebody like Northern Illinois. We finally won, but we were all on edge. I recall that we were all listening to it on radio since it was not on TV at all in our part of the country. That was pre-internet, pre-streams and not millions of games on ESPN at the same time. It was a very jittery living room until we finally won. If I can figure out which game and which year, I'll edit this post.
Yeah, I was bummed out by today's game, wondering where this dazzling smashing defense was supposed to be, but I have to keep it in perspective. Often enough, we've played down to the level of a weak opponent. We seem to be playing very mediocre ball but then we cruise to a victory by 30 or more points. Today, it was 28 points. Whatever.
EDIT: Actually, it might have been our '87 game against Toledo which we only won 24-14. That was a UM team that turned out undefeated and won the NC. It's hard for me to remember that specific game but I'm sure we went in expecting to win by more than ten. We must have been sweating bullets to only win by ten. Whether that was a home or away game I don't remember. I was with a bunch of UM fans in the Washington, D.C. area so we usually tried to find a place with a satellite dish to pick up games for us.
So, I wouldn't give up hope for this year's team, yet.