Quote Originally Posted by FISHDAWG View Post
a lot of us have always said that for us 7-5 is expected and 8-4 would be possible and preferred but 9-3 would be beyond expectations ..... and as we stand here now - that's exactly where we are. Just because a lot of us are realist that doesn't make us haters ... I know there are haters around and I'm not one of them ... but I am a realist and it has nothing to do with OM
To be fair, I don't think most of us had A&M and Arkansas being a combined 8-10 with losses to Liberty and App State.

Things change once the season starts. We have been pretty fortunate on the injury front. Our OL has played better than most expected and I think Kentucky is worse than I thought as well.

The same reason I was just fine with 5-7 in 2009 is the same reason I will be pretty pissed at 7-5 this year. So far we have not won one game that we shouldn't have won, and thankfully we just won our Leach game for the year.

It just a season of missed opportunities.

Without trying very hard we could easily be 8-1 and in the driver's seat in the West.

Read that sentence again. Its completely true.

If we beat LSU and Kentucky (two games that any rational fan would have to admit we were the better team) we are 8-1 and even if we lose to UGA, we would be in a 3 way tie for first in the West.

If that was the case, the UGA game would be the biggest game since AU in 2014. Instead we are struggling against an AU team that is pretty awful.