Will they be in a bowl with a 5-7 record? That is possible.

Come on man! The offense is disappointing and we're used to playing for championships; but, we've lost to ranked teams.

The schedule gets easier from here and will give our guys a chance to figure it out, get back into the top 25, beat the coots, win a bowl game, honor some great seniors.

10-3 isn't where we want to live; but that is still a great football season and it's very much on the table, still.

Heck, 7-6 is better than half the teams in the country and would be well worth it if that is what it takes to forge the team for another decade like the last one.

Has this year been hard to watch? Sure. Don't jump off the bandwagon yet, though. The difference between a great program having a bad year and the beginning of the end is whether we come apart at the seams.

Try to enjoy the good parts and keep the faith. There are 100 teams that would trade our situation for their situation next season in a heartbeat and 70 that would make the trade right now.

Tiger Rag gets played a lot during a big win but it gets played the most during a terrible loss. I know your misery comes from a place of love. Dig down, find the love and hold it tighter than the misery. There are better times ahead and these are not bad times despite being worse than we've seen in a while.