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Sincere question for those here who deal in hypotheticals
DerekJohnson
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Looking back at the 2016 Washington Huskies, would you view that season more favorably if they lost to Alabama in the semifinal Peach Bowl (the reality), or if they had beaten Oklahoma or Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl to finish 13-1?
(Obviously the Sugar Bowl matchup is made up for the sake of discussion)
(Obviously the Sugar Bowl matchup is made up for the sake of discussion)
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Losing that game to Alabama sucked.
Would have been a much better finish to the season with a bowl win against a respectable opponent.
HTH -
The Badger is correct.PurpleBaze said:Losing that game to Alabama sucked.
Would have been a much better finish to the season with a bowl win against a respectable opponent.
HTH -
DisagreeCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The Badger is correct.PurpleBaze said:Losing that game to Alabama sucked.
Would have been a much better finish to the season with a bowl win against a respectable opponent.
HTH
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NeGgaPlEaSe said:
DisagreeCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The Badger is correct.PurpleBaze said:Losing that game to Alabama sucked.
Would have been a much better finish to the season with a bowl win against a respectable opponent.
HTH
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If you win the conference and are not in the playoffs its like you’ve gone straight to the losers bracket.
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I’m fine with the Semi-Final loss. Pete’s teams were never going to win on a big stage. Too tight and always seemed to want to let Browning win the game before realizing Gaskin was the best player we had on offense. Maybe if that team had won a Sugar or Fiesta against a blue blood in ‘16 then the ‘17 and ‘18 teams don’t shrivel dick their NY6 games but who really knows. Pete had those teams so wound up it took two quarters to relax and just play football.
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Hindsight being what it is, I might take a Sugar Bowl win. But that would have meant a lot of consternation about why UW as PAC-12 champ with only one loss didn’t get into the playoffs.
So no, we! wanted Bama and we? got them. -
Iirc, we were a cunt hair away from being the 3-seed and would have played a tOSU team who got massively butt fucked by Clemson.
During the season, Clemson won a game against NC State or someone like that where their opponents missed a 15 yard field goal as time expired. Had they made it, UW would have likely played in the championship game as I think we would have beaten that buckeye team.
But, you know, if my uncle had labia majora, he'd be my aunt -
What is the difference between a sincere and honest question?
SC rose their Rose Bowl win in 2016 to higher levels than our CFP loss (and then quickly fell on their face with the wrong coach). However, SC still doesn’t have a CFP appearance and we do. -
The no shows at the Fiesta and Rose were the real indictments. 2016 felt like the start of something, the other 2 NY6 bowls made it clear Peterman wasn’t getting over the hump.
