I’ll admit I’m not a sophisticated enough football brain to get too far in the weeds on all of the chess match that goes on, but it seems evident to me that Heupel is an offensive genius. At the end of the day, it’s about creating space for the guy with the ball, and Heupel is a magician at doing that. Always has been.
If you can get a Jalin Hyatt running wide open behind everybody, you take it every time. But if you can spread people out and get Jaylen Wright 7.4 yards on every handoff, you do that too.
It’s always going to be tougher sledding when you go up against a UGA or Bama, who also have not only great schematic coaches but also loads of analysts to help game plan (especially for games against guys like Heupel), and by the way, absolutely loaded rosters.
You’re not going to win every time, but I’m more convinced than ever that we will be very happy (or should be) with Heupel + the right QB + a good enough roster everywhere else.