We heard the same stories about the teams we were facing last year, prior to playing them. All you read on here was how those teams were older and had guys in their mid to late 20s and how good of a test it would be.
Then we blew them all out and struggled during the season at which point our illustrious posting community communed with their powers of hindsight to declare that those teams we pounded the summer prior were not actually that good.
I don’t think we’ll know how good these teams are until we face some top 25 D1 teams and can compare our performances like we did last season.