When we were sitting at 2-3, with UGA and bammer coming next on the schedule, Pig Howard just being thrown off the team, and, rumor had it, Butch Jones about to be fired for striking a player in practice- did you really think we'd be sitting here today about to go to a really good NYD bowl?
Butch doesn't get a pass from me for our early losses. But there's a lot to be said for how this team finished. As we've seen many times over the past decade under other coaches, if this team gets off to a slow start, they'll phone it in for the rest of the season. And that week before the UGA game, that's exactly what I expected to happen. The only remaining win I saw on the schedule at that point was North Texas. But to his credit, Butch wasn't having it.
I think this team is on the verge of something big, starting next year. We may look back that UGA comeback not only as the turning point of this season, but of this entire program.
The team improved through the season, in some places significantly.
More often we saw strategy to win (UGA, bamer, KY, candy come to mind). BTW, not upset with the mizzou strategy, given the conditions both with weather and the emotional aspects, as well as Dobbs' foot injury
We can run with and against anybody.
BTW, getting out front early, McElroy predicting Tennessee for a 2016 National Championship run (on the SECN Bowl Selection version of SEC Now)