Going into Dave Aranda’s first season, I spent the majority of my time trying to figure out which defensive scheme Baylor would base out of. Aranda is notoriously malleable, he’ll work with what he has up front and won’t force any particular scheme, which makes the project of prediction all the tougher.
In his few years at Wisconsin he started by using the more standard “TITE” front when he had the 6-3 330+ lb war daddy Beau Allen (still in the NFL) as his nose tackle. TITE is very popular in college football now, especially exploding after Iowa State went from bottom-barrel to conference contender by utilizing it extensively starting around 2016.