re: Can anyone help me see the positive?

Might be stretching a bit, but looking for any positives/advantages next year, I looked at the schedules. Florida and A&M both play @LSU the week before they play us. UT plays Bama the week before us and UGA and USC the 2 games before that. For USC, we will be their 3rd of 3 straight away games, with @Ark and @UT before us. We get @UK and then a bye before having to go to OM(though OM's schedule is pretty weak right before us as well). UGA will have just played LSU and then an emotional game at UT before playing MU. Vandy is early, so no real edge, though I'd give it to MU if I had to because Vandy plays USC 2 weeks before MU and UK really has no one before we play @UK.

So the schedules may give MU some sort of edge in 6 of the 8 conference games and the 2 that there is no real edge are winnable regardless, being Vandy and UK. All meaningless, but like I said...stretching to find positives.