I just went back and watched the game again. We had some friends over and I had the game on in the background, I mean it’s Nichols so shouldn’t have been close. I actually turned the game off when we went up 17. I’m not going to go all game film geek but here’s what I saw with less adult beverage fogged eyes.
Special teams was good. Only little snafu was the punt they downed at the one. Other than that, which was just a good play by them, we did good in this facet.
Defense was pretty solid. We gave up 24 points which in modern college football will win more than it loses. The open receivers in the middle of the field were concerning. Obviously, a running QB gives us fits. We held our own against a pretty good QB and receiver combo, but I would have like to see a game plan making their other players beat us.
Offense, we’ll it just sucked. Levi did his thing and missed some passes, could have run more, there were some bad passes and some dropped. The last MAJOR concern of mine is our Oline. This was supposed to be our most solid unit and the first two weeks they just sucked. For me, not wearing down an FCS D line with our “supposed” road graders is just unacceptable. We’re supposedly so deep and great but their D line ate our lunch and never looked tired.
Bottom line, O line has to improve to get the run game going to help protect Levi from being himself.