of the four. They will be coming to Lavell Edwards Stadium after we have played three games already, with LSU and Utah leading up to the matchup. The team will probably be pretty tired and will have taken a beating the last two games. Wisconsin, on the other hand, will have played two warm up games against Utah St (3-9 in the Mountain West last year) and Florida Atlantic (3-9 in Conference USA last year). They are going to be well rested and will have had two games to work out their system without any real challenges. Even playing at home, I don't see that ending well.

I see LSU as a toss up. They are perennially one of the best teams in the country, especially on defense. To our advantage, we get a warm up game against Portland St to start the season before heading to Houston, while this will be their season opener. They are breaking in a new offense. In their spring scrimmage, the offense looked awful and completely out of sync. We should have a pretty solid defense again, so I imagine that they will struggle to score, especially early in the game. The question is if our somewhat average talent on offense will be able to move the ball. I am hoping for an early season upset, much like Utah's win in over Michigan two years ago. Michigan was breaking in a new coaching staff and lost a close one. They went on to DOMINATE teams for the rest of the season, including shutting BYU out at their place in our worst performance of the 2015 season. We could catch a similar break as they try to install a new system, letting us get the upset and then go on crush their opponents for the rest of the year, giving us the benefit of catching them early and knocking off a highly ranked opponent.