If we had finished against Rutgers we'd have a much more realistic path to the playoff. We probably need total chaos or a win in the Horseshoe now. It is hardly worth mentioning at this point. We are a 2.5 point underdog to WVU, basically exactly what I predicted a few months ago, and would probably be favored in every MAC game if the game were this week, probably by only 1 or 2 at Buffalo, so a very good record is still possible. But we are staring down, what, about 36 points next week? We'll be given right about a 1% chance to win if WVU is a close win or loss.
As I said in the prediction thread, even though I think we'd be favored in every game after OSU, I am in no way predicting a 8-0 MAC record. We have no chance to pull an upset, a couple of games that aren't much better than 50/50, and at least a pretty realistic chance to be upset in most games. 6-2 is probably my median expectation. We could easily do better or worse than that.
We entered last week with the FBS leading win streak. If we had come into the home of the #1 team with the nation's longest winning streak there might have been at least a very small amount of national talk around that game but now shows like Gameday won't mention it.