WSU only had Devin Richardson, and Thornton, playing well at Linebacker.
There is a HUGE hole at linebacker, with only 2 of the 3 linebackers playing good.
That means that a good running team, can expose that hole.
The D line is pretty good, and helps cover that linebacker hole.
The truly elite running teams will be hard for the defense to stop, and will need a offense clicking on all cylinders to have a chance.
The hole at linebacker, making it harder to stop the run, and the inability to run the ball, due to bad run blocking of the O Line, were the biggest concerns.
The errors, mistakes, etc, will probably be cleaned up in time, and the offense, WR's, Cam, ARBUCKLE, sure put a hell of a lot of offense, stats, points, etc, on the board(550 yards(450 pass yards(50 QB rushing yards(50 points), etc