unfortunately, (if they lose) all this team is going to serve as now is an example (especially to the worse teams) that if you're a bad team and you schedule anyone other than the cupcakes, you're not going to make bowl games...
the whole difference between 6 wins and bowling and 5-7 is that they scheduled a game against Stanford (a good team) this season rather than try to find another MAC, WAC, or Mountain West team