In one of the seminal comedy classics of the 2000s, a young Ricky Bobby is told by his father that "if you ain't first, you're last."
His obsession with that line of thinking is meant to be one of the movie's jokes – how absurd would it be to treat everything like an all or nothing proposition? As it turns out, it's pretty par for the course for college football.
Though it ended with a trip to the Rose Bowl and another Pac-12 title, you could argue that this season was a failure for the Washington Huskies.