where a team will end up at the end of the season, and not an assessment of where they rank at the beginning of the season? Given this year's schedule, ending just outside the Top 25 is not a highly unreasonable opinion.
I certainly hope and believe that this team can do better than that. But going 8-5 or 7-6 is not a big stretch of the imagination. Majorly disappointing; but, not a stretch.