told that perfection didn't matter, we still weren't ALLOWED to play with the big boys.

Our team was dejected, especially with the loss of our Doak Walker Award winning phenom, and a really good Hawaii team, who knew by that point they'd be shut out of a bowl game at all despite a great season, saw the big bad BYU Cougars, the team they considered their biggest rival, who'd recently left them to rot in the WAC, were coming in with a top 10 ranking. They played their GUTS out, and our guys got punched in the mouth early and mailed it in.