I’m having some trouble understanding Olin’s contention that 7 points would make their record go from 5-7 to 10-2. I’m sitting here trying to figure out how 7 points could convert 5 losses into 5 wins.
Even if all 5 losses were by 1 point each, that means that 5 points are required just to convert them into 5 ties. So how does the remaining 2 points get you from 5 ties to 5 wins? Are they able to use fractions of a point in their games somehow? Anyway, their closest loss this season was by 3 points so it still doesn’t make sense.
I guess he actually means 7 points in each of the 5 games, which would actually be 35 points? They scored a total of 273 points during the season so in that case he’s asking them to increase their season scoring output by about 13%. In the 5 close losses they scored a total of 134 points, just under 27 points per game. So yeah if they had just scored 25% more points in those 5 losses they would have been 10-2 with losses to unranked Mississippi state and Florida.
so close! (To a season that still wouldn’t have justified their preseason ranking)