Remember, the whole goal wasn't to win the NC this year or anything. We should have won the game, yes; however, we can still be like Colorado from the early 2000's when they would play a stupid schedule, lose some close games to teams that were better than and then roll through the North (01, 02, 04, 05) except when we were better than them (00, 03).
This can still happen. Thus, my level is much less. I'd say 5.