MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — At this point in his career, Middle Tennessee head football coach Derek Mason knows what to expect from a Lane Kiffin offense.
"It's going to be explosive shots," Mason said. "There's going to be opportunities to run the football. You're going to get tempo. These are hallmarks, really, of what they do."
He saw the Kiffin offense as a defensive backs coach with the Minnesota Vikings in 2007, where the Vikings triumphed over Kiffin's Oakland Raiders 28-22. He saw it three times at Stanford as either an assistant coach or defensive coordinator, while Kiffin was the head coach at Southern Cal, winning all three matchups.