I don't disagree with you at all...
It's just this season has been such a let down people just aren't falling for the Banana in the tailpipe anymore.
We don't know what version of this team will show up, we're just too poorly coached & undisciplined to galvanize any kind of confidence from the fans on a week to week basis. The moment you start to think this team is going to finally put it all together & play it's best football, they come out & lay an egg (see Va Tech).
I think most people just don't trust Diaz to have this team prepared & ready to go for a big rivalry game, fans are in the "I'll believe when I see it" phase of expectations with this team.
Of course I hope we win, but there's not many reasons to believe we will, not saying we won't just saying it's not like we have any advantages in this game besides our DLine vs their OL, but other than that everything else is a push.
Whether we win or lose, it's probably going to be a bad game on both sides of the ball, I just hope we don't get blown out & figure out a way to win, but I'm not holding my breath & not expecting anything other than Corching 101 to go down.