In no real particular order...
* Special teams had one hiccup yesterday, but overall, the punting especially, was very good.
* The offensive line was ok in pass pro vs a good DL, and also enabled Dyer to grind out 141 yards.
* Dyer is a man.
* McCaleb, again, say what you want, but he averaged 8.2 yards a touch on 11 touches yesterday, and goes largely unnoticed in pass protection, but is VERY good at it.
* Defense. Ok, young and inexperienced is no longer an excuse. We saw that we actually have the ability to man up and stuff the one of the best RBs in the league. We, or I, saw that Chiz got much more involved there, and it worked. Def. was aggressive, DBs covered well and played the ball.
* All the Chiz dissers (mostly outsiders now)...all the folk that think Malzahn is really the HC...all the folks flapping their gums on talk radio that have no idea what a HC's job is...Chiz is running this team. It's clear. It's clear to me he's in charge, he is at the controls, and he's managing his way through a very rough period of growing pains. There were multiple times yesterday when a team with no real leadership would have faltered and failed.
* We are now 4-1 when many pundits in the pre-season said "I can't find 4 wins on that Auburn Schedule". We are 1-0 in an October stretch many predicted could see us going 0-4.
*This team has now beaten 2 SEC team that were ranked at the time we beat them, SC was #10, and our only loss was to Clemson, who appears to be for real, and is ranked #8 currently.
* On the whole, this team knows how to win, and is doing better than expected even with adversity.
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