This is not to rehash old discussions about whether we should have played this game or not, but this game has made me think a lot since the Egg Bowl. I am still in favor of us having played that game, but how different would you be viewing this team if we had scheduled a patsy like most every other SEC school and were sitting at 7-5 right now? I know the whole "you are what your record says you are" applies here, but does anyone truly believe this team is at best a .500 team? I don't.

This is what propels me into thinking next year could be an amazing year for us. Without OK St, we are a 7-5 team with the possibility of 8-5 with a bowl win. So between having started 3 different QBs and 1/3 of our season with a 2 QB system, losing our starting RG and SS game 1, Autry on a bad leg the whole year, Whitley on a bum knee the last half the year, lose Ross for the Egg Bowl for a collar bone, lose Skinner for multiple games, Redmond gone 5 games, and us playing more freshmen than I can ever remember us playing, we were an 8 win team IN A REBUILD YEAR.

Like I said, this is not to be in favor or against the OK St. game, but to say that in actuality we are a 7-5 regular season team in a year we were rebuilding and very young and ended up having to deal with "the most injuries he's ever seen in one season" according to Dan Mullen. I mean crap people, that's pretty impressive. Color me wooly about next year. Better personnel, ton of returning players, much more favorable schedule, and other West teams losing considerably more impact players than we will. Could be special people.