Somehow, this is where we ended up, staring down the barrel of a losing season and no bowl game.
This week's topic is pretty cut and dry. With two games left on the schedule, Washington is two wins short of bowl eligibility, making each game do-or-die, must-win, pivotal, or whatever cliche you want to use. Coaches talk about the extra practices and exposure as being the benefit of making a bowl game, but really what it comes down to is simple, the teams that don't make bowl games are losing programs, no matter how you spin it, and no stigma is tougher to shake than "losing program".