I agree. We had a golden opportunity today, we blew it, and now we'll move on to the rest of the season. To me, the loss proved that there's still a wide margin between ourselves and teams like LSU and Bama, but we also showed that we can play some downright ****** football and still take a road game against a tough football team down to the wire.
Unfortunately, I think this now means that 8-4 is pretty close to our best case scenario at this point, but I guess I'll still gladly take that at this time in Mullen's career. The refs sucked today, our playcalling was horrific at times, and Auburn came out with more energy and emotion, but I can't help but thinking that this is what you get when hope to continuously "coach up" our recruting classes against SEC teams that land Top 5 classes year after year. There's just too much talent there and Auburn showed what happens when you're bigger, stronger, and faster at so many critical positions. The gap may not be the size of the grand canyon nor is it at every position, but it's there and it showed today. We got pushed around, our blockers got shoved to the side, and we were just outmatched. Needless to say, I was highly disappointed today.
With all that said, I can almost guarantee that we're going to pull a major upset or two this year so while I'm pissed, it ain't time to mail it in yet. I may be crazy, but I'll be there Thursday night. If nothing else, I'm taking the next day off so I've got a good reason to get drunk.
