Despite losing to world champions South Africa, Scotland enjoyed a successful Autumn Nations Series with victories over Fiji, Portugal and a resurgent Australia side.
All eyes will now turn to the Six Nations, with players stating the performance levels shown over the past four weeks cannot drop when the championship begins in February.
Over the past year and following another forgettable World Cup campaign, Scotland have shown real signs of promise.
The victory over Wales was the first win in Cardiff for 22 years and the Calcutta Cup was retained for the fourth year running. But around those successes came the controversial defeat to France, where Sam Skinner was robbed of a match-winning try, a dismal second half collapse to Italy in Rome, and defeat to Grand Slam-winning Ireland despite a creditable performance in Dublin.
The summer tour allowed young players to get their chance, and some have grabbed the opportunity with both hands, earning places in the autumn squad.
But what of those outwith the current set-up? We've picked through six players who will be keen to get into (or in some cases, back into) the Scotland fold for the Six Nations.
Rhys Litterick
It seems likely the prop will swap Cardiff for Edinburgh come the end of the season.
Despite the emergence of Will Hurd, finding a back-up to Zander Fagerson remains a problem that will be in the forefront of Gregor Townsend's thinking.
The 25-year-old has been a regular for Cardiff this season, albeit off the bench, but if he can continue to get regular game-time, he could be in with a shot of making the Six Nations squad.
Cam Henderson
It is almost a year since the lock suffered a serious knee injury which has kept him sidelined since.
He was clearly on Gregor Townsend's radar having won his first cap in the World Cup warm-up win over Italy, and had been in excellent form with Leicester.
Townsend name-checked Henderson in his post-autumn debrief and hopes he will be back for the Six Nations. He may have ground to make up - and his involvement may come down to what part, if any, Jonny Gray plays moving forward.
Magnus Bradbury
He was Players' Player of the Year in his debut campaign at Bristol Bears and started every Premiership match of his second season at Ashton Gate, but a return north has not yielded any more caps for the 29-year-old.
Bradbury last played for Scotland on the 2022 summer tour to Argentina, but must come into consideration, especially if there are doubts around Jack Dempsey's fitness.
He looked at his best with a brace of tries in Edinburgh's 50-33 win over Benetton on Saturday evening.
Gus Warr
The Sale Sharks scrum-half made his debut on the Americas trip and played well, scoring two tries on his debut in Canada and following that up with another lively shift in the win over Chile.
His omission for the autumn came just as his own game took a dip and Ali Price enjoyed a resurgence in two Edinburgh wins as while Sale endured difficult results.
If Warr can get back to the levels he showed over the second half of last season, he won't be far away.
Ben Healy
When he guided Munster to the URC title, then switched international allegiances to Scotland, it looked like Healy was the man Scottish Rugby had selected to be understudy, or long-term successor, to Finn Russell in the number 10 shirt.
But it has not panned out that way. He's been demoted to playing for Edinburgh 'A' with summer recruit Ross Thompson seemingly the go-to man for Sean Everitt.
However, with Thompson ahead at club level and Adam Hastings back to his best at Glasgow, not to mention Tom Jordan the find of the autumn, it looks a long way back into the international picture for Healy.
But he provided calmness when it was most needed for Edinburgh against Benetton at the weekend to steer Sean Everitt's side over the line.
Ollie Smith
The Glasgow Warriors fullback has not played for a year after a serious knee injury on club duty. But he was pictured training with the Scotland squad during the autumn and is understood to be nearing a comeback.
Prior to his ACL injury, he had made a good start to life as an international player and was in the World Cup squad.
A lot has changed in the past 12 months and with Tom Jordan's versatility key, it could be tough for Smith to get back into the fold, but he's certainly got the talent.
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