This year I think the Mississippi schools have better more talent and both Leach and Kiffin have a 1 year jump on fitting their players to their system. Leach is a very good coach that specializes in turning mediocre programs into contenders. So yeah.... they could beat us this year.
Our OL is the same as last year. They are mediocre to poor and the bench is thin. We are going to have another year of watching Bo scramble for his life and then make bad throws. I think there will be improvement in TE utilization but the WR situation is looking very bad. Tank is a great back and I think Worm would also be great if given the chance. But they can't show their abilities if the line in front of them plays poorly.
There is a lot (overwhelming) support of the defense on this site. So much so that I can't help wondering what everyone is seeing. But with all the losses to transfers, I don't see how this year's defense could be better than last year's. We appear to have some young talent coming in (like Lee Hunter) but they are very raw and, for all we know, they may get red shirted. But maybe I'm wrong on this and they will be good. At a minimum, the defense had better be in really good shape....because with our offense, the defense is gonna be on the field for most of the game.