My terminology is a little more pejorative to hammer home the point. Pick your adjective...

But the point is the same...we are not a very good football team right now, and we should stop acting shocked when we lose to clearly better teams.

The VT on the helmets doesn't win games, the players do, and we have desperately few of them this year.

Your last paragraph is intriguing. You aren't getting it. Do you think we "should" beat GT? Let me tell you, we have very little chance of beating Georgia Tech this year with these young diaper-dandy linebackers. Rivers play is frighteningly bad at times. VS PJ's Triple O? Come on. That should not be an expectation. Beat Miami? Really? With our "normal average selves"? Do you hear yourself? We beat Duke, so its business-as-usual?

Cognitive dissonance is what I hear in your post.