We just have to accept fact in recruiting

[dawgday166]

Somewhat of a bad example. We mostly beat the hell out of everyone on our schedule except Bama / OM. We were a pretty good team. We weren't bouncing 50 yard passes off of CB's hands for TD passes or combining a 100 yard missed field goal return for a TD with multiple missed field goals by our opponent in order to eek out victories and backdoor our way into the national title game. And we didn't have that kind of luck against our two big rivals like Auburn had against theirs. 2014 MSU would likely beat 2013 Auburn by multiple TD's.

Agree with this. But also saying we caught everyone off guard, especially LSU and except maybe AU. The LSU team that played Bama later in the year would have been a tougher out than when we played them.

I'm also saying that we got pretty lucky that Dak, BMac, and Preston Smith all grew into the players they did grow into. BMac and Preston I believe (or at least 1 of them) are the reasons we never have 2* players on our commit lists anymore, cause the recruiting rankings missed "so badly" on those 2. So now if they commit to us they're automatically 3* (according to Rosebowl from back in 2014).

ETA: And I neglected to mention JRob, Day, & Beckwith and the players they became too.