define legit.
beat osu? b10 title? bcs bowl win? bcs title? super bowl champion? sec west champs? sec title game champs?
thats an escalating scale id go with:
certainly capable with what ive seen so far, maybe, less likely, no, no way, never gonna happen, cant compete with sec speed.
personally though i think joe pa is more excited for the osu game than his weekly trip to bob evans every sunday morning. he is one of the best coaches in the history of football, his teams rarely beat themselves, they are well coached and with all due respect to our team ive seen no indication that this game is a push over or that theyhave the ability to push anyone over. if it comes down to two teams beating on each other with frozen socks, id give the edge to the lions, the current group has not shown the ability to take adveristy. heck 27% on third downs, in ability to throw the ball, in efficient running game, wrs going terry glenn on their teammates, dl that has been pushed around like babies in strollers, missed tackles in the back seven, no sense of urgency, no competitive composure, no pride in their work, playing with a sense of entitlement, failure to understand football is a game of violent collisions, unwililngness to physical punish the other team, lack of playing their best, inability to man coverage, lack of intermediate passing game, a thrid down passing game that is effective as throwning a cross check with a wet noodle...
sports arent static folks, look at it this way if you return 19 players and they all start, did you get better, maybe. i see no push, no drive from other players to drive guys off the field and themselves on it. you can make any excuse you want but weve seen a lot of guys play this year and very few good performance, not even spectacular ones. ..