If we don't get in, you are telling all of college football not to schedule big OOC games anymore. They can only hurt you.
And if anyone is tempted to say, "Just beat Florida," you are completely missing the point. The point is that by scheduling the huge OOC game, you are risking blowing one of your exactly two mulligans for no benefit. We didn't beat Florida, but we did beat 3 top ten teams out of 4. Why did we need to play the 5th one at all? We didn't.
If you like those big early season games in college football (and who doesn't?), then we should be in. No one in their right mind thinks BYU, Utah, or Vanderbilt would beat us right now. Michigan? Maybe some would pick them, but Ohio State will take care of them tomorrow.
We are absolutely one of the top 12 teams in the country, to the point that even the bumblefucks on texags are admitting it right after we took their 0.