It's not really debatable that 10 wins is the old 9 wins, and certainly not the standard. This year, and apparently going forward, we did at least use that 12th game for a P5 opponent not a cupcake. But generally speaking, 11 wins is now the equivalent of 10 pre-2005(and excluding '02 and '03).
The only balance I'll throw in with regards to the "not being able to beat uga" argument that TheDouglas made in the chat below, is that Spurrier also coached during a much different period and had his own nemesis that he struggled to get past. I don't care the color of the jersey, consistently losing to a rival is consistently losing to a rival, especially one you routinely recruit against. So while I get that we ran the SEC, if the noles were in our division, we wouldn't have. We'd have been playing for 2nd place in the majority of his years.
To be clear, I'm not advocating being ok with losing in Jax. It's the one game I want more than any other. But as a teenager in the 90's, I would probably would've put fsu in that category. And namely because they had our number, consistently had better players and ruined season after season. Mullen needs to correct the current trend and win that game next year. But it's not as if we've never seen a situation like this, even while enjoying the overall success of a coaching staff. It just didn't prevent us from winning the conference.