I don’t see how not making it to Arlington in 2025, and again in 2026 — barring Avery Johnson getting injured or going pro or something — wouldn’t be considered a disappointment.
Why are you acting like we have that much more talent and depth than everyone else in this conference? I very obviously love Avery and I'd take him before I'd take anyone else, but both of the quarterbacks and possibly both starting running backs from this year's conference championship game are returning. In these days of mega conferences teams could very easily go 10-2 and not make their conference championship game. You think we should expect to go 11-1 or 12-0 the next two seasons? Ohio State didn't even make their conference championship game.
Man, are you guys gE'ing? If not, I think some people are getting really swayed by a win against an average Rutgers team. We were damn lucky to get to 9 wins. Did you guys not see the same secondary, front four pass rush, or special teams that I did? We have a LOT of work to do.
How about that we have to replace most of our offensive line, WRs, secondary, kicker and both DE next season?
People just assuming we would have won had we played any of the other three B12 teams ranked ahead of us (Baylor, TCU, Tech). And forgot we got our asses kicked by three we did play (ASU, BYU, ISU). Our only good win came against Colorado with Travis Hunter leaving midway through the second quarter. It still took a last minute 50 yard bomb, and a lucky no-call on an obvious PI on a 4th and 5 (with two holds against WRs).
https://youtu.be/RCMyBMYwO1Y?si=RJ0mAdiEN6PN9o2U&t=1013.
5 of our 6 conference wins (counting Arizona), came against the teams ranked 9-16.