We head into the Bucket Game needed a win for a couple of reasons. Obviously, the first one is ti get the bucket back. The second is to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2012, the year that Danny Hope got fired.
This has been a year where we have succeeded expectations. Vegas said our over/under on wins was 2.5 before the season, we have doubled that. There were even games that we should have won, but they went right thru our grasp.
But here we are, one win away from a bowl birth, a place that many saw so far away at the start of the year.