Scared may be too strong a word, but I sincerely hope that we are reading far more of the press, and talking WAY more about potential bowl berths, than the team is.
As someone who was that the 1997 game that was our Independence Bowl warm up against 0-10 TCU where they managed to get beat... and remembers the 2006 team that was going bowling, and got beat by these same Rice Owls... there's a lot of season left to play.
Don't get me wrong, I am as excited about this team as I have been at any time in the past 25 years. I'm driving friends and family nuts with Mustang talk. And I think this team is good enough to win out...
But they are NOT good enough to let an unexpected victory and a soft schedule go to their heads, and go on cruise control for the remainder of the season.
Keep playing tough, keep practicing hard, and let the bowl committees take care of their own business.
I managed to wake up an entire totally silent section at TTU-Kan this weekend with my "WAY TO GO MUSTANGS!" when they went ahead... this is fun, I'm enjoying it. But they have to play every minute of every game. Unlike Texas, they're not good enough to take a quarter off.