Doesn’t make them reasonable. If they are realistic about their team this is not a bad loss. Look at some of their other games. They were living on borrowed time. BYU plays them close every year and has handed away games up there at least a couple times. This shouldn’t be that surprising.
BYU is demonstrably a better team than USF and Toledo based on their wins and the losses by those teams. But each game is unique especially with injuries and turnovers. Bsu has not shown they are a better team than BYU this year, they have just shown they can avoid injuries and beat up on patsies. With BYU’s schedule, the records are about the same