Majors
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You really expected Western Carolina and Missori State to have Top 5 teams? After all, those teams represent 12 of those 20 years.
As for the "lower-ranked when we played them," is that really relevant? #2 Indiana is the same team that we played early. Early season rankings often get it wrong, and circumstances such as injuries affect seasons. Louisville, NC State, and Texas have all fallen hard from early rankings. Other teams have climbed.
Critiques of coaching and results are fair game as well as talking about winnable games that were lost, but rankings are often deceptive. We were overranked; some of our early opponents obviously were slighted in early rankings.
No, at those schools one should expect more than 1 conference championship in those combined years of 12. At this point with another big game loss is that Kellie/staff are who they are and have been for many years. Just unfortunate it’s coming at our expense.