Three games into the 2018 season, we’re beginning to get a good feel for the makeup of this Ole miss football team—not too different from 2017. Even after a dud against Alabama, it feels safe to say that this offense will remain an upper-echelon unit, especially when accounting for strength of schedule. Meanwhile, this defense’s shortcomings are rooted in structural flaws (both personnel and staff related) that won’t be fixed anytime soon.
Last season, Ole Miss finished ninth in offensive S&P+ and 113th in defense, and that imbalance looks like it’ll persist through 2018. A team with a great offense and leaky defense is far from a foreign concept (hello, Big 12), this level of extremity puts Matt Luke’s team in rare company.