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[quote author=MustardtheBallCarrier link=topic=18295.msg217154#msg217154 date=1512506127]
Provides a nice snapshot of another successful season.  A lot of talent on this team, particularly on offense.  Very good special teams.  What kept us from NY6 and possibly the playoff this year was QB play and lack of one or two more playmakers in the defensive front 7.

And Shaw, who blamed himself for the loss @ WSU. If we'd won that game we'd have been in NY6 even with the loss on Friday.
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When you are basically one game away from going to a New Year's 6 bowl game AND three of your four losses were by a field goal, any number of things could have turned out differently and led us to win a game that we otherwise would have lost.  But there are also three games that we won by a field goal or less, and very easily a couple of things could have gone differently and we would have lost.

Overall, I can't really complain about where we wound up.  From an overall team quality perspective, we are a good but not great team, and our ranking in the 10-20 range is about right, as is the fact that we are going to the top non-NY6 bowl for the Pac-12.  Really, when you step back, the result feels just about right.

BC

[BostonCard]

[quote author=MustardtheBallCarrier link=topic=18295.msg217154#msg217154 date=1512506127]
Provides a nice snapshot of another successful season.  A lot of talent on this team, particularly on offense.  Very good special teams.  What kept us from NY6 and possibly the playoff this year was QB play and lack of one or two more playmakers in the defensive front 7.

And Shaw, who blamed himself for the loss @ WSU. If we'd won that game we'd have been in NY6 even with the loss on Friday.
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When you are basically one game away from going to a New Year's 6 bowl game AND three of your four losses were by a field goal, any number of things could have turned out differently and led us to win a game that we otherwise would have lost.  But there are also three games that we won by a field goal or less, and very easily a couple of things could have gone differently and we would have lost.

Overall, I can't really complain about where we wound up.  From an overall team quality perspective, we are a good but not great team, and our ranking in the 10-20 range is about right, as is the fact that we are going to the top non-NY6 bowl for the Pac-12.  Really, when you step back, the result feels just about right.

BC