re: If we lose Saturday, then win 1 of the last 3, this season was still a raging success.

Success yes

Still, we should expect to win at least 2 of our last 3.

A lot of you have killed me with your low standards, same for local BR media. I've predicted 9-3 since spring and so many have been okay with 7-5. I would have and still would consider that a failure. An 8-4 season would be a disappointment. Never expected anything more than 9-3 though.

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You can’t look at it as “finishing 3-1.” You have to look at it as “finishing 10-3.”

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FIFY

I do consider the Ole Miss win to be "signature." The pollsters apparently thought so too.

At this point - yes season is success
But goalposts move

If we don't finish 3-1 to end the season I will be disappointed

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You can’t look at it as “finishing 1-3.” You have to look at it as “finishing 8-5.”

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I would definitely see it as losing the last 3 SEC games. Unless you think one of those losses is UAB which would leave an even worse taste in my mouth.

And if we limp into the postseason what makes you think we win the bowl game? 2-2 would be fine as long as it's not to aTm and UAB.

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You can’t look at it as “finishing 1-3.” You have to look at it as “finishing 8-5.”

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Lol what?

You finished 8-5
But your finishing at 1-3

8-5 is still a success but it would be wildly disappointing to lose to Arkansa or A&M

We're a better team then both of them

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If we lose Saturday, then win 1 of the last 3, this season was still a raging success.

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It's hard to picture losing to Bama, TAMU and Piggy in the same season we beat Auburn, UF, Ole Miss and Miss St and calling that a "raging success."

TAMU and Piggy are objectively worse than Ole Miss and Miss State, so if we lose those games I'd call it disappointing. LSU has shown its potential, so losing to lower caliber teams in the 2nd half of the season would actually be very disappointing.

At the very worst, going 8-4 after the 6-2 start should be the floor. I think 9-3 is a reasonable target for this team given what is in front of us.

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Good win…yes but not a “signature” win.

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I don’t know what the arbitrary definition of “signature win” is or what tangible benefit one gives you over just a plain ol’ SEC win. But I do know that no 1 win—whether CBK (the poster) has attached his arbitrary label of “signature” to it—means a whole lot unless it’s part of a stack of other wins.

I personally think the Florida game was the most important win so far and will be able to be looked back on as the turning point for this team this season. It was a game that, whatever we wind up accomplishing, will have been built on what they did that night in Gainesville.

Whether Florida wins another game this year or not won’t diminish it—it was a nationally televised SEC night game against one of our biggest rivals that still had enough hope left to turn up for what is probably the most hostile environment in the SEC (because of the way the Swamp is built). It was just a week after we got our asses handed to us at home and when the local and national media were extremely critical of Coach Kelly and Jayden Daniels, particularly Daniels, who Kelly was observed more visibly upset with and more vocally making that known on the sidelines. The talk of Nuss replacing Daniels was at its peak—people who hadn’t yet were calling for it, and a reporter even asked Kelly if he had thought about putting Nuss in due to Jayden’s “poor play” or something to effect. But Kelly was a bit defiant in defending his QB, and said something like “Well, we didn’t see it like that.” I think that was huge.

After that UT game, it looked liked Florida could easily be the 2nd in what could turn out to be a 5-game losing streak. And it didn’t take them long to score on their 1st drive to make us all go “here we go again.” But something different happened—we answered immediately to tie it up. Then Florida scored another TD to go up 14-7. And then we answered again. And again. And again until we had run off 6 straight TD drives and wound up running them out of Swamp.

But it was the responses that was so impressive. The response by Kelly and staff to their worst coaching job of the season. The response by the team after their worst game of the season. The response of Daniels after the most media and fan critical week of his season. And the response by everybody after going down so early 7-0. Not only did we never trail by more than 1 score, Florida never had the ball up 7 with even an opportunity to make it a 2-score game.

That was the turning point of the season. The Ole Miss win was great, especially after we had fallen behind by 2 scores again. But after the offense got going, building on what we had done at Florida, that outcome was just inevitable. We were too good for that not to have eventually played out like that. It will be inter sting to see if, after the bye week, we can continue to build on what we’ve done and continue to grow as a team for the last 4 games, regardless of the final score Saturday.