When predicting win totals of a season, are you counting only the regular season, or are you including the bowl game as well?
There was a deep rabbit hole about this on another thread, and I think it might deserve it's own discussion, if for no other reason then to reach a consensus (or admit that everyone will do whatever they want anyways).
I've always thought that when people predicted an X-win season, the implication was that it included a possible bowl game. So a 10-win season could be 9-3 regular season with a bowl win or 10-2 regular season with a bowl loss.
The primary reason for this is that when looking back on prior seasons, you refer to them as 8-win, 9-win, or 10-win seasons, and each win total has a certain amount of accomplishment to it. A good reference would be our streak of 10-win seasons, which had us getting to that threshold by all manner of combinations of regular season, conference championships, and bowl games. It's basically how we gauge success of past seasons. In that sense, it makes sense to predict future success using the same measurement we use to gauge past success.
The other side states that we have no idea who we would be playing in a bowl or if we even make one, so it's impossible to predict a win or loss.
Is there a standard way or is this destined to be a jumbled semantic mess?
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