So? What else are going to do? Should our goal be to lose to ohio st, win the rest and then lose to ohio st or Penn st again because that's more realistic? I dont know about you but reality doesnt play too much into my sports goals. I mean you can set whatever goals you wan, but I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. No, of course you don't go into a game with the goal of losing it. Obviously the goal for the Milwaukee Bucks going into every game is to win the game, but that doesn't mean one of their ultimate goals is "win every game this season." The UW men's basketball team might have an ultimate goal of winning the NCAA championship this year, but that's obviously not realistic. I usually feel better the day after a game and have more perspective, but in this case, I don't see it. To me, we were exposed as frauds yesterday and don't deserve to be in the playoff conversation at all. We're no more playoff contenders than Baylor and SMU and Minnesota. It's not simply losing that game but how it was done. I understand, as others have pointed out, that flukey things happen, like Georgia and South Carolina. But being up 13 points, with 19 minutes left in the game, down at the 21 yard line of the lowly Illini, and finding ways, over, and over again of somehow letting a team without a single conference win to not only win but rally from a big deficit is just unfathomable. No real CFP contender is losing that game against that team yesterday from 4:44 in the 3rd yesterday in 10,000 scenarios. It's unimaginable. Yet, we found a way. It's no exaggeration to say it's the worst Badger loss I've seen in my lifetime. Because you seem to be refuting that it is possible they can still end up in the playoff by saying it's an unrealistic goal. I get that a lot of things they did yesterday are things bad teams do. And I'm not saying, nor anyone for that matter, that this team is going to run the table looking like the team that played Michigan, but it could happen. And that's what we are trying to say while at the same time saying it's not really likely to happen.