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<blockquote data-quote="Samuel S" data-source="post: 129394322" data-attributes="member: 1754664">In addition to the 5 weak teams, I had us beating OSU and TTU in my preseason picks.Now, we need to beat one of the others. Assuming we can&nbsp; lose to TCU and beat&nbsp; TTU (if we lose that one all bets are off) we need to beat either Texas at home or KSU on the road to pull out 7-5. Both are very &quot;winnable&quot; or &quot;loseable.&quot; I actually expected Texas to be pretty good this year, I had them 4th behind OU, Baylor and TCU. I would not have picked them to lose at home to OSU or beat&nbsp; Oklahoma but overall they're about what I expected whenI picked us to lose that game.&nbsp;&nbsp; KSU is not as good as I thought they would be. It's not so much their record as how they have looked Another team with QB issues (and, to be fair, proof QB depth is not a guarantee of success, because they've played 5)&nbsp; Like us their schedule if front-loaded. After Baylor, they finish with TTU, ISU, Kansas, us.&nbsp; We might very well both be playing for a winning record at KSU. I really only picked KSU over us because they are at home and Snyder&gt; Holgorsen. Now, I am also worried it might be Snyder's farewell and that would give them a lot of motivation to send him out a winner in front of the home folks.&nbsp; My position remains that if this team cannot finish,&nbsp; in year 5,&nbsp; at least at&nbsp; .500 against the middle of the pack of OSU, Texas, Texas Tech and Kansas State, we need to move on. Puff those teams up all you dare, 1-3 against them is bad.2-3 in the other games is not the problem. Losing to the top 3 will be acceptable to me most years as long as we beat the bottom 2. We need to go 2-2 or better against the middle of the pack almost every year if we are ever going to amount to anything and put&nbsp; ourselves in position to really compete, occasionally for titles when we do pull a real upset or 2..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samuel S, post: 129394322, member: 1754664"] In addition to the 5 weak teams, I had us beating OSU and TTU in my preseason picks. Now, we need to beat one of the others. Assuming we can lose to TCU and beat TTU (if we lose that one all bets are off) we need to beat either Texas at home or KSU on the road to pull out 7-5. Both are very "winnable" or "loseable." I actually expected Texas to be pretty good this year, I had them 4th behind OU, Baylor and TCU. I would not have picked them to lose at home to OSU or beat Oklahoma but overall they're about what I expected whenI picked us to lose that game. KSU is not as good as I thought they would be. It's not so much their record as how they have looked Another team with QB issues (and, to be fair, proof QB depth is not a guarantee of success, because they've played 5) Like us their schedule if front-loaded. After Baylor, they finish with TTU, ISU, Kansas, us. We might very well both be playing for a winning record at KSU. I really only picked KSU over us because they are at home and Snyder> Holgorsen. Now, I am also worried it might be Snyder's farewell and that would give them a lot of motivation to send him out a winner in front of the home folks. My position remains that if this team cannot finish, in year 5, at least at .500 against the middle of the pack of OSU, Texas, Texas Tech and Kansas State, we need to move on. Puff those teams up all you dare, 1-3 against them is bad. 2-3 in the other games is not the problem. Losing to the top 3 will be acceptable to me most years as long as we beat the bottom 2. We need to go 2-2 or better against the middle of the pack almost every year if we are ever going to amount to anything and put ourselves in position to really compete, occasionally for titles when we do pull a real upset or 2.. [/QUOTE]

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