First Look: Elon

Photo by Michael Gonzalez/Getty ImagesAs I debut the Monday “First Look” column — which I’m doing as a replacement for the old offense and defense previews we used to do (because, really, do we need separate game week previews for the offense and defense) — I’m not going to spend a whole lot ot time on this, because (a) Elon is an FCS team that Vanderbilt should beat and (b) they haven’t played a game this season, so I’d basically be rehashing what I wrote in my summer opponent preview back in July.

But I do want everybody to be prepared for a couple of things.

It is entirely plausible that Elon is a better team than Hawaii. Sure, last year they were a 6-5 FCS team that lost 44-10 to App…