We had two absolute studs in Murphy and Sweat, and got some good stuff from a Jaylon Ford, a young Ant Hill, Broughton, and Collins, but we had a true frosh DB in Muhammad, and Derek Williams, but McDonald and Barren hadn't become freaks yet. Barron was still very good, tho. hadn't come into bis own, Taaffe was still learning, but our DL was pretty much befrer of talent. Now, if we put our 2024 defense out there, we win that game. We were just that dominant.
Those dudes had Mazi Smith, DJ Turner, Mike Morris,Mason Graham, Junior Colson, Michael Barrett, and then offensively they had JJ McCarthy. Blake Corum, Donovan Edwards, Kalel Mullins, Roman Wilson, Luke Schoomaker, Colton Loveland, Cornelius Johnson.
Offense we had Ewers, Brooks, Ced Baxter, Worthy, Adonai Mitchell, JT Sanders, Whittington, and then a bunch of either Yung bucks who didn't play much, like Jaydon Blue, Keilan Robinson, Wisner hadn't become the ou and aggy dagger yet, and we did have a good OL with Banks, Christian Jones, Jake Majors, DJ Campbell, and Hayden Connor, and they (not Banks or Jones) would hdlavw gotten abused and Ewers would have self-sacked himself.
We would have lost by 2 TDs, minimum. They were just that much better. Their OL was a well-oiled machine.