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notre dame joe

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  1. It's a joke but it's politically correct. Everyone except me is pretending that the ACC kept us out of the college football playoff, because they lobbied for a total of one team in the playoff. Isn't that their job? We were actually kept out of the playoffs by SEC #5. The SEC has so much power in the media that, l no one is questioning whether the $EC deserved its 5th best team in the top 12. You have a good conference but it is not so good that number five is head and shoulders above anyone else. And the helmet cancels any question about whether Alabama really was the 5th best team. Could Texas beat Auburn by more than one touchdown? Well, just because they did not call this targeting does not mean there were no concussive effects.
  2. ND gets a token amount from the ACC but not a full payout or even close. Apparently we don't need whatever the poptars were offering but the bowls seem to need eyeballs badly.
  3. And the gift bag, kids at that age just love Pop-Tarts. Not unprecedented, in 1996 Notre Dame was 9-2 having just bungled a big lead in the USC game. Notre Dame felt too big to 'send St Lou out with a win' and declined a bowl. And in that era bowl games mattered a lot more.
  4. #7 the the composite of all the computer rankings. https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf&top=-9 And, the computers don't know that; Miami had hacked the snap count, Texas A&M had a tell on run vs pass from quarterback Carr's stance. Neither was likely to be true in the future.
  5. Pretty busy with all the people who say that ND gets preferential treatment. 🖕
  6. Acceptable sort by bad losses. Or, Sort by wins against conference champions.
  7. Is James Madison going to beat Miami or indiana?
  8. I feel that we are on a collision course with anOSU no matter what happens
  9. Sadly when driving from Toledo to South Bend it was noticeable. Like suddenly there was a fun house mirror making everything taller and thinner
  10. Poor Miami. They spent all week attacking Notre Dame. Now they are in a dog fight with bama for the last slot, and afraid they might lose their lottery ticket for an invitation to the SEC.
  11. There's a lot of chit chat about a 'buffer' between ND and Miami because we would be flipped if right next to each other. A weak move for a weak concept. But anywho, but Bama ND BYU Miami If BYU gets punished for losing then Bama could get punished if they lose. The family still employs a buffer
  12. I think another playoff spot was opened up early this afternoon. Bump Miami up to 11 and then swap Miami with #10 ND (after we got swapped with Bama for their magnificent one TD win over an inept Auburn)? Gun to my head I would guess NO, Miami already got their stay home and eat cheeseburger award by getting in and possibly being #11.
  13. It's mostly the W-L. But it's also the games against Mississippi State, Kentucky, Florida, UGA. The PC talks a lot but they generally sort by W-L and follow the computers.
  14. It's a tough draw. If TTech was closer to normal, or BYU losses one of the wacky tiebreakers and finishes 11-1, then they probably both go to the playoff. The Big12 had a number of wins over the ACC so they probably are the #3 conference.
  15. Colley is a binary where a win is 1 and loss is 0. That's the metric everyone uses when they want to exclude ND because it treats last minute losses to A&M and Miami the same as Alabama getting crushed by Florida State. If we are going to be faulted for pure W-L then we get credited for beating opponents' W-L. https://colleyrankings.com/currank.html
  16. Nope. We would be dogs to Ohio State, maybe small underdogs to Oregon and Georgia. I'm happy for a chance to thrash the rest of the field, particular fakers like Oklahoma and Alabama. Again we beat three 9 win teams, and Navy will likely become a 10 win team next week. That's just a piece of the puzzle showing that we didn't play a joke schedule, not that we ever do. And where are you getting the idea that BYU is better than ND in any measure? Massey gives BYU #15-defense amd #20 in offense. ND is 1 and 6th. The one thing that ND, BYU, ND, and USC have in common is that we are much higher in the computers than the human polls. https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings
  17. Going for it is fine in that spot. I just don't know why coaches can't just run a play instead of going lucha libre with fakes. Is your base offense expected to get two yards?
  18. Navy is #22 on Colley. Boise won't quite be top 25 but it's a win over a conference champ 9 win team.
  19. IF Boise wants to go to the half with 40 seconds left, why throw a 5 yard pass. The only thing that can happen is a pick-6.
  20. We will have two top 25 wins and three more in the top 50. All very decisive or a blowout. Is one 8 team really that much better than another? Who cares
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