What is the nation thinking about us if we'd've lost the bowl game?

Alternatively, what is the thinking if we'd've won MAC last year?

Disagree bigtime. 

If we'd've won MAC title, we'd be in 25 now.  We keep winning and you'll start hearing the couldn't-get-a-ticket gripes; get your seats now.  We get the great record and we'll be in a BCS bowl, no doubt.  The next game is the most important in decades, being built on a series of ever increasingly important games.  But this is the one now.

We go as far as our D-line takes us.

Remember when I told you that mid-week TV games would be genius.