re: Last night sucked, but this season has been great

Yep, we were never a playoff-caliber team, and I think the rankings just blinded a lot of people to that fact.

Once we took the lead in the West, the committee slotted us where they did, based on conference prestige. Not on whether this team was believed that strong, but because it was going to Atlanta.

A lot of fans, rather than enjoying the run and being ecstatic about the upset over Bama, got visions of a 2019 repeat in their minds, and now are angry and pissed. Objectively, they shouldn't be, because the team was playing over it's head at the time.
I'm disappointed that we lost to A&M, but not shocked. That was a talented team trying to salvage some self-respect, at home in a primetime game... and we're just not at a level where we can go in and smack them down. We could have won had things gone differently, but we were never going to blow them out.

I'm looking forward to next season, but I think we're still a couple years away from being a dominant machine again. Still, we beat Bama, Florida and Auburn, swept the Mississippi teams, and beat a fired-up Arkansas team on their home field. It was a MUCH better year than our past 2.