Ah, I respectfully disagree but I do see where you're coming from. Only my opinion but if we had that mindset we would have 10 wins instead of 8. For bowl games in particular though I've always thought they're for style points in the offseason and not for sportsmanship.
Edit: Just for the record 8 wins is what I predicted for us preseason so I'm not disgruntled about that.haha