Just as I suspected, 7-6 feels a lot better than 6-7 would have felt. That was a good win over a solid team on Saturday afternoon, and though people pay a little bit too much attention to bowl results in my opinion, it certainly has us all in a better frame of mind heading into the offseason.

Will Stewart did a pretty awesome job of covering the game in Monday Thoughts, as usual. I’ll try to throw in some different perspective on a few other topics,

Available Yards vs. Total Yards

Just looking at the box score, Cincinnati clearly gained more yards than Virginia Tech. 489 to 334 isn’t exactly close. However, when you look at the percentage of the available yards that was actually gained by each team, then you’ll find that the offenses were much more even than the regular box score shows.

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