I think the Colorado game and their roster numbers phrase the debate in an excellent way:
What's better for the UW football program as an end to the season? 1.) Ending the season by getting embarrassingly smoked two or three times in a row (starting with Stanford). 2.) Getting the 'rona, hanging the North banner, passing off the conference title to hated rival. w/respect.
I don't think there is a third option here. If the numbers weren't just a total lie, UW would have looked like Colorado. Could have looked even worse. UW's defense, for instance, consists of about four or five NFL starters and then a massive cliff to the rest. Could you imagine UW lining up against Oregon or USC without, for instance, Ulofoshio? Or playing 60 minutes with an OLB pairing of true freshmen Smalls and McDonald?
So--I'm legit asking--what is better here for the program? Pussing out and hanging a pathetic, meaningless banner but gifting conference champ bragging rights to Oregon or getting absolutely buttfucked by USC but in the process denying Oregon a chance to play? For as pissed off as everyone is, I don't see either as a particularly appealing choice.
That assumes as fact that we would have lost in embarrassing fashion, and you don't know that. Many X factors. And how do you know that USC wouldn't have been hit with something similar and entered the game short-handed? So the way you framed the question makes it meaningless to answer.
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