3 back to back to back losses to middling football programs in a conference they were confident they would easily win the championship of while focusing on the expanded 12 team playoff before the first regular season had even been played.

They thought they were going to demolish every team on their schedule and they just have back to back home game losses in front of their faithful fans, both of them pitiful performances by a "loaded" team.

The reaction, in its own way, is the perpetuation of the hubris that made the losses "so bad."