December 26, 2014 may have been the most recent sunny day we’ve had, as Rutgers football fans. The 2014 Quick Lane Bowl, a 40-21 victory over North Carolina which wasn’t as close as the score might have indicated (remember: we shut them out in the first half) and which secured an eighth victory of our first Big Ten season, ended a streak of ten bowl games (with seven victories!) in eleven seasons.
Since then, it’s been pretty ugly over here. I know you know the statistics, so I won’t belabor them. Eleven wins in four seasons, with the capstone being a horrendous one win, eleven loss 2018 campaign where our average margin of defeat was in the somewhere around twenty points.