I’m sure that’s JF’s attitude, too.
“Just wait until they soften the playoff structure. Then we’ll slip in through the back door. Occasionally.”
Then when they repeatedly get ousted in the first round, he’ll say, “Hey, we had a chance to win a Natty this year. What more do you want?”
But the answer is pretty simple: we want to know that the program can be competitive against other elite programs. And what he’s shown us for 10 years is that a) it isn’t and b) he doesn’t really seem to care that he can only beat weak opponents and lays down for the big dogs.