Okay. Colorado was a 10-2 team before their bowl game. Auburn was 7-4 before theirs, yet we lost to them, in large part due to Rex's 4 INTs, which tend to stick out in Heisman voter's minds. Voters thought Crouch was more valuable when they voted.
Another game probably won if replay was used...Auburn fumbled the opening kick off and recovered by our kicker but ruled by the officials he was down when replay showed he wasn't. Probably cost us 3 points maybe more. We always got screwed by officiating at Auburn all the time.
I am very hopeful we will not have to worry about that scenario. I noticed in the game replays that Wisconsin was very poor at the running attack. They were in a lot of 3rd and longs where Mertz had a lot of pressure to make something happen. They were behind in lot of games from the get go. He had a lot of interceptions that were receiver problems. At times the receivers looked good at catching difficult balls (where only they could catch them), but then when they had to go get a ball because Mertz got hurried or couldn't follow through, the receivers didn't track the ball, return to the ball and high point. He also had a fair amount of problems with receivers on what I presume were option routes or just wrong routes. He would throw a perfect ball for a curl and the receiver did an out, either of which would have worked. He made so many right choices and good reads throughout the games you would expect most of those were receiver issues, not his. What I would worry about in his bad tendencies were his not stepping into the pocket when pressure came from the edge, which will be much worse of an issue in the SEC. I saw at least one of those that turned into an interception, and his lack of feel for pressure was worse against the better teams. He also didn't keep his eyes down the field because of feeling pressure and losing the chance for a TD or throwing too late. He also loves some routes that make him miss some big plays too. The positives are he is very accurate, can put it where only the receiver can get it, can make all the throws, can run, and reads the defenses very well. The whole playbook will be available to him, which will be a relief from the plays that we rarely saw last year because of some of AR's deficiencies.
