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Everything posted by notre dame joe
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
It's lame if you remember that the ACC is a dead man walking conference. Preseason everyone knew it when the conference leadership caved to FSU/Clemson and said they could leave early in exchange for absolutely nothing, Just try to say an SEC team does that and gets excluded from the playoff. Try typing it and see how that argument looks. So four P4 teams and your old regular SWC opponent? I can say the same thing about East Illinois, Kentucky, Florida, Arkansas, SCe.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
Do you see Eastern Illinois here? CSC. Cash, strictly cash. The NCST game was played in a hurricane. Brain Kelly lined up in the shot gun like he always does and tried to throw the ball 40 times. The ACC is a 'partner' who signed a long term contract with ND. If you take a dump in public on your contractual partner you should expect the deal is going to fail.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
This guy gets it. No. Not even from the outside priests are not part of the Brothers of the Holy Cross and were just hired to work at the University. For a Catholic institution that large to escape largely unscathed is head scratching. Our scandal was Ty Willingham. I'm aware of that. The SEC designed that inane tiebreaker rule instead of just 'highest in the PC rankings.' So you have your fifth best team playing in the CCG between the top two. So even if you say that 'they shouldn't be punished for the CCG' Right, you are punished for finishing fifth in conference.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
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.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
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.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
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.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
#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.
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Tell Me About Notre Dame
Pretty busy with all the people who say that ND gets preferential treatment. 🖕
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Acceptable sort by bad losses. Or, Sort by wins against conference champions.
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2025 ACC Championship - Virginia vs. Duke
Is James Madison going to beat Miami or indiana?
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2025 ACC Championship - Virginia vs. Duke
I would do it
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2025 ACC Championship - Virginia vs. Duke
Too.much time 😏
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2025 ACC Championship - Virginia vs. Duke
Seriously
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2025 Big Ten Championship - Ohio State vs. Indiana
I feel that we are on a collision course with anOSU no matter what happens
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2025 Big Ten Championship - Ohio State vs. Indiana
Sadly when driving from Toledo to South Bend it was noticeable. Like suddenly there was a fun house mirror making everything taller and thinner
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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.
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2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
Gotta try something.
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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
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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.
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2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
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.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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
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2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
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?