Well, at least we don't have to hear on every broadcast of our games next season: "Nebraska made a bowl game last season, but was only 5 and 7 and the only team with a losing record to make a bowl game".
Because you know for sure that this fact would have been brought up at least once, if not multiple times, during our games broadcast if we had made a bowl game at 5 and 7.
And for the record - we don't deserve a bowl game. Can't secure one single win in November, shutting ourselves out again. Continuing the longest ongoing streak in CFB for a team not making a bowl game.