The 2015 Apple Cup was bad, but whatever

Jennifer Buchanan-USA TODAY SportsSome thoughts on the Apple Cup, where everything went wrong and the Cougs reverted into something we thought had died long ago.

2. You're worried about Peyton Bender, and that's fair. Bender didn't have to be everything to everyone in the Apple Cup. The point was never that he's Luke Falk, but that the pieces around him on both sides of the ball were good enough for him to be Peyton Bender, and do enough to win. And he started the game just fine, too.

After Bender and the offense threw three very good punches in the first quarter and missed on all of them, that was about it. Bender has the physical tools, but his misses -- not being on the same page as a…