I'm still waiting for you to post how after yesterday, objectively speaking at this point of the season, PSU is in better or the same company as:
1. Oklahoma (lost to KSU)
2. Georgia (struggled with Kent)
3. Michigan (got bailed out by refs and won by 1 td vs MD)
4. Clemson (struggled with Wake Forest)
5. USC (3 point win over Oregon State)
6. Kentucky (8 point win over NIU)
7. Oregon (3 point win over WSU)
8. Baylor (1 td score over Iowa State)
9. Pitt (gave up 24 pts to Rhode Island)
10. Texas (lost to Texas Tech)
11. Miami (lost to Middle Tenn)
12. BYU (beat Wyoming by 7)
13. Ole Miss (beat Tulsa by 8)
Per your metrics, more than half of the AP Top 25 must be mediocre, and their fanbases should all be in an uproar, right?
So who exactly should be enjoying their seasons so far, Alabama? Or they probably cannot because they haven't beaten anyone with a pulse and struggled with 2 loss Texas, winning by a FG on a BS call?
I guess all of college football is garbage.
I've said all along that we're in the second tier. That doesn't mean Purdue and Auburn are good.
Why are you comprehending this? Every fan base can enjoy something even when they're losing--such as watching players develop but pretending teams are good simply because we beat them doesn't make you a "good" fan. It makes you delusional
And, yes, most of FBS is garbage which is why we need to see the Big Ten and SEC destroy it.
Why didn't you list Ohio State on your breakdown?
But
1. Oklahoma isn't very good this year--they started the year with 3 easy games including Nebraska then got exposed against K-State. Venables is in year one--no one should have reasonably expected them to contend this year. They're a step below us.
2. Did you watch any of the Georgia game? That game was never in doubt. Like us they sleepwalked through the game. They still have that win over Oregon which is far superior than anything we've done.
3. Michigan didn't get "bailed out by the refs" lmao. This is you being biased. Michigan played poorly because, like Oklahoma, they didn't schedule a decent opponent early on.
4. Clemson isn't very good. Wake is good for Wake. Clemson surviving in OT on the road against Wake won't hurt them but obviously, as Swinney said, their D has major problems. We're on par with Clemson.
5. We're on par with USC--first year HC
6. Kentucky isn't a great team. They have a legit QB with first round potential and have a win over Florida. We have more talent than Kentucky but Kentucky's resume is better right now. We'll see how they do against Ole Miss
7. We're better than Oregon. Georgia would beat us but not by 46.
8. Baylor isn't better than us. They're third tear (lower based on talent) and beat a team similar to them on the road.
9. You included Pitt? lol
10. Texas isn't good especially without Ewers. That loss is bad for Bama. Who thought Texas was good? Did you?
11. Miami is garbage--we saw that last week. They were only ranked because of the hype around Van Dyke.
12. We saw last week BYU was overrated--again, a team we're obviously more talented than
13. Ole Miss had that game won at half but, again, we have more talent than Ole Miss
Again, I don't understand why you're confused by any of this.
Either you don't think we're good or you're standards are too low. Fan bases that expect to win don't celebrate pulling away in the second half against CMU, beating Purdue on the road or beating Auburn THIS YEAR. I still give us tons of credit for scheduling Auburn. We couldn't have known they'd hire Harsin and he'd destroy that program.