It's stupid and I hate it but unfortunately it matters. Polls, rankings, playoff spots - all are driven by media perception as much as winning percentage and stats.
Is our defense crappy right now? It absolutely is.
Are we 9-1 with a Heisman-level quarterback, the most prolific offense in the **** country, and a better record than Bama, UGA, Tennessee, and Clemson? Also yes.
And yet we got twatwaffles calling us frauds and pumping up 3-loss SEC teams for the playoffs.
Bottom line is we are what our record says we are. Beat WF and Cuse, leave no excuses to have to beg our way into the playoff picture.
It just sucks to have the slimmest margin for error, knowing that one more loss (again, putting us with the same record as the aforementioned media darlings) and we'll take a nose dive so far down the polls we'll be playing the crew of the Titan submarine in the Marina Trench bowl with Booger and Company chanting "SEC SEC" all the way down.