Quote:Bowl win
Outright MAC Championship
Nationally televised game
Top 25 ranking
Victory over Michigan/Michigan State
Well, we're already accomplishing one of those tomorrow, possibly two. Here's my list, spawning from yours, ordered in degree-of-difficulty:
- Nationally televised game (
DONE; Potato Bowl is nationally Televised)
- Bowl win (very possible with all the Sun Belt & somewhat weak CUSA matchups within 1-3 years)
- Beating a under-.500 P5 team (can be difficult or not too difficult; here's looking at you NW & Illinois in 2016...)
- Beating a bowl-eligible P5 team (difficult)
- Beating a ranked opponent (difficult; would need luck too, beating a bit of an over-rated team if one means ranking at-that-time)
- Winning @CMU
3 times in a row (yes, it's THAT difficult)
- Winning the MAC West (very difficult; requires beating NIU and Toledo, or losing to just 1 but being undefeated otherwise in the MAC)
- MAC Championship (a bit more difficult; requires above + winning Champ game)
- Top 25 Ranking (a step or two behind MACC; winning MACC will require us getting over a hump, and we should have at least have more than a handful of votes to be ranked)
- Beating MSU next year (extremely difficult; MSU is going to be prepared for us, coming into our house)
- ACCESS BOWL (very very difficult; Usually be ranked at least in Top 20, if not within Top 16-18; must be best in G5; Better than NIU, Boise, Colorado St, Memphis, Cinci, E Carolina, UCF, Utah State, etc)
- WINNING THE ACCESS BOWL (virtually impossible; Fleck would most likely be hired away by the time we'd play it which would lessen our chances even More)