Looking back now, winning that game would have done nothing for us after the grand scheme of things. It’s kinda whatever. I’m sure it motivated them more.
Nah, it we had won that game we would of had a whole week ESPN talking about who should get the 4th playoff spot between Katz/OSU/Bama and would of had something else to add to our "Kstate getting screwed" list of grievances when the CFP took OSU.
Correct, and in general losing to Texas in addition makes it all mute anyways (much like Bama's two losses).
Do I want to have beaten Tulane? Absolutely, if anything especially at the time it seemed like a bad loss, now at the end of the season with Tulane in the NYE6 bowl it's our second worst loss, so kinda meh.
End of the day, we had 2, not 1, losses too many to be considered seriously for the playoff, in two years all this is mute with the essential autobid into the playoff.