This board is often full of puffery and braggadocio, but football can be a humbling game. Let's take some time to evaluate the missed opportunities of the 2021 SEC football season.

I'll go first.

**It is important to note, no moral victories are being claimed in this process. We lost, and that is that.***

Over recent years of Razorback football, I have come to learn what an "embarrassing loss" is. Fortunately, those days are over and we have a few new whipping boys in the west (LSU, aTm).

This year, Arkansas lost four games, but only one was truly embarrassing. Our least embarrassing loss was at Alabama. We played hard but they were the better team that day.

I also can't find much to fault losing at Ole Miss on a failed two-point conversion. It was a shootout and Pittman took a calculated risk to win at the end, and it didn't pay off.

Our only home loss was to Auburn, who is always spotted 21+ points by the refs, and we were within that margin. Should Birmingham ever decide to stop being crooked, we would've won that game easily.

But our most embarrassing loss was at Georgia. I cannot believe we couldn't take care of business against those scrubs. I could make excuses for the team, but I will not. Our team fell apart because of crowd noise, when we could've clearly won the game on the field, as our team is capable of playing two halves of football. We shot ourselves in the foot with penalties, otherwise we should've taken that game between the hedges. We missed a huge opportunity for a big road win, and could've gone 2-0 against this year's soft SEC east.