I've noted before, if you are a K State fan, you can have a ton of fun with football and be happy you made some bowl game.
Fans for Alabama and Ohio State and a few others can get so wound up in "having to win" they can forget to have fun. Anything less than a conference championship and playoff spot is a disappointment.
Dawg fans are in that awful middle where you expect to be good enough to maybe somehow be good but you have that feeling you're going to lose "to Vandy" and blow it.