In college football today, you need 3 things to compete at a high level:

1) QB
2) Offensive play-calling
3) Defense

That is really it. Sure, it helps to have other things, and things like OL will play into how well your QB plays, for example. But when all is said and done, the top teams will have those things working for them.

Auburn didn't have a great defense, but we saw last night it was better than previously thought and could step up when it needed to. They had a QB who was incredible in that offense and they had Malzahn.

We will have the QB, we should have the offensive play-calling to allow that QB to thrive, and all indications are that we will have the defense.