That said, I'm not sure which of those hurt us.

Games we won by 30+ probably don't make much difference if we win by a bit more, so that knocks out Navy (won by 52), Troy (by 41), LaTech (by 31), Texas St (by 38), Western Kentucky (by 31), Boise St (by 34) and North Alabama (by 52) as games where we could have made a better impression.

And even in a lot of those games we didn't pull Zach Wilson. In the closest of them (Lousiana Tech) Wilson was the only QB to throw a pass and had 26 pass attempts (plus 8 carries, don't know how many were designed runs and how many were impromptu on dropbacks), while our RBs combined for only 25 carries. Against Western Kentucky, RBs had 22 carries compared to 32 pass attempts for Wilson (plus 5 carries).

So I don't think we could have gotten a lot more credit by beating overmatched teams by 38 instead of by 31 (or whatever).

Houston we only beat by 17 and could have looked better, but that wasn't a game we let off the pedal at all. ZW was the only QB, starters stayed in and Wilson had 44 passes/rushes. Compared to 15 carries for everyone else combined. So that game was all Zach.

UTSA was also closer and probably damaged perception, but that game was all Wilson/Allgeier with almost no subs.