What's really sad is that we are completely dependent on the East being down and a favorable out of conference schedule to get to a bowl. Couldn't capitalize on winning the East although it's severely down. What if the East wasn't down, what if it was normal? How would we feel about additional losses and lack of overall player development then? I simply don't understand why we have such low expectations for the coaching staff and team.
All I hear is how favorable the remaining schedule is because XYZ team is down this year and we have a lame duck team is AP. Hell I don't want to win because others suck, I want to win because we are a good team that's prepared to beat those we are supposed to, play competitively against superior competition, and pull off the occasional upset.
About 80 out of 129 teams make it to a bowl game each year, which is good odds within itself. We've been on the outside looking in each year due to poor game management, player development, and poor coaching. We won't be any better next year, wait and see.