I'm not sure we're as much notches below as our opponents this year are notches above? When we were all making our ussual preseason predictions, many of the various ranking systems had S. Carolina pretty far down, etc. It turns out they're a top 25 (or close to it) team, as is S Miss, Louisville and UAB. The fact that we're losing to them is not really a huge suprise. Army should've been a win, but they too are much better than even their own record shows. Bottom line, we got some more BCS recruiting to do.