the suckiness level of scoring only 18 points against last years AZ team on a neutral field and scoring only six versus Wisconsin at home (much more difficult D, it appears so far, than AZ) is essentially the same suckiness level.

The differences between games last year were noise, not signal, in a general signal of suckiness.

If you take into account he two all-timers we lost in TH and JW, the overall offense might even have improved in terms of a performance to talent ratio. That's how bad we've been for 1.25 seasons now.