Because a win is a win and a loss is a loss - especially in conference. I don't care that we blow someone out, or get blown out, I care that we win or lose. Let the bookies worry about the spread, I don't bet. So that one's easy.
Quote:there is no person who actually researched houston preseason, would not consider it a disappointment... phil steele, bill connelly, colin sherwin... almost every respectable preseason prognosticator (key word on the "respectable") all had houston having a very good season, around 7-8-ish wins, bill c said houston had top 3 highest ceilings in the league
Here are Connelly's preseason predictions:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...ce-part-ii
On SMU, we were supposed to go between better than 5-7 but not quite hit 10-2. So, with Connelly we did what we were supposed to do. B, B+.
On UCF, he referred to a 10 win season as (and I quote) "
merely a ten win season" (his italics). So losing 4 games, without playing UNC, would absolutely be considered a disappointment. D, D+.
Aaand UH:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...nce-part-i
LSS, he had UH going .500, at 6-6 before the bowl game. Mediocrity. 63rd out of 130 programs . I think it would have helped if you had played Rice and UNT instead of BYU but we'll never know. So I say Connelly would have looked at these results and said "yeah, about what I expected." B.
And here's Sherwin:
https://dknation.draftkings.com/2020/4/1...-holgorsen
Now, Sherwin is a little higher on the 'coogs, I'll give you that, but even he acknowledges the challenges they were going to face this season and points out that the original schedule did them favors that the changes didn't: "The second year for an Air Raid team generally works better than the first. We’ll go hard over here with UH, and think they’re likely closer to seven or eight wins than five." So maybe
that's the issue here - the schedule changes made life a lot harder on UH, I'll say that.
But I say that Sherwin would say that "yeah, take away two wins and add a top 20 team and they'd go 5-7 rather than 7-5 or 6-6." And again, he wouldn't say that this season was a massive disappointment. He would acknowledge that, yeah, the coogs, did about as well as one could expect.
And I've already covered Phil Steele.
So anybody else you want to name, so I can go read them and post their preseason comments, and then point out why they agree with the grade?