I've been beating that drum for months. A quality loss isn't nearly as important as the fact that Clemson is holding one of four playoff spots that we're trying to get.
Also, if you dudes take off your homer glasses for a second and use your football eyes, Oklahoma is a better football team than us and Sparty has a better win than anything we've done this year.
Brady Quinn disagrees.
Brady Quinn interview 11-24-15 - Notre Dame Insider: Audio
Look at guys. Nothing has changed since Monday except the opinions of 12 people.
I am kind of glad this happened. Remember this is an organization to whom crowd popularity means everything. Without common popular support, this committee would lose all authority to select the four finalists.
So it does make sense that you see this fluctuation. With as volatile as the college game is there are at least five games this weekend that could re-order the top four teams. Let alone the different combinations of those outcomes. Let alone 'Championship Weekend.'
If OU looses, ND is in because either MSU or Iowa will also have to lose. And they both could lose! Does anyone think the B1GOT will get two teams in with no undefeated teams left? Let alone if they have a two loss champion, who may not make it over ND if the Irish beat Stanford, anyway?
Likelihood of B1GOT sending team(s) to Playoffs :
Iowa
- 13-0? Yes!
- Will 12-1 make it? As Champ with loss against Nebraska? Probably, depending on how close the Nebraska loss was, and how dominant the championship game performance.
- As runner up with loss in championship? Probably not. But the champ will go!
- Iowa 11-2 make it? No.
MSU
- 12-1 As Champ with or without resounding victories. Yes.
- 10-2? No.
OSU
- 12-1 Probably, (as conference champ). but that would require wins over Michigan and Iowa, and MSU needs to lose to PSU!
- 11-1 Non-champ? No.
- 10-2? No.
- UM
UM
- 11-2? As conference champ? No. especially if there are multiple one loss teams that didn't lose to Utah.
- As anything less than conference champs, (9-3 or 9-4)? You've got to be kidding!
Dude, you need to shut the fuck up with that. All you're doing is spreading the same BS narrative that ESPN is.
In our last 4 games...
-Road win over RANKED Temple. Relative to everyone else who has played Temple, we did better than all but one team. If ND is going to be punished for a close win on the road over a ranked team, then why does Oklahoma get CREDIT for a 1 point win over a similarly ranked TCU team missing both of their best players? A TCU team that almost lost to Kansas the previous week?
-Road win over 8 win Pittsburgh. ND beat them worse than anyone. Iowa at home needed a 58 yard field goal with time expiring to beat the same team. So we clearly pass the eye test here when we beat a good team worse than any other team has.
-Wake Forest was beaten by 21 points. We beat Wake Forest by more than Clemson did this past week, and by more points than anyone but UNC.
-Against BC we played bad.
So on "eye test" on three out of our last four games we outperformed what 21 out of 23 other teams did against the same competition... including multiple teams currently ranked ahead of us.
If you want to say we looked terrible against BC... fine. But saying we've "failed the eye test" for a month is not true, and it's really stupid + annoying. Stop.
I really like your post, LAX!
In fact you are illuminating the reason I think so much of what the committee does with the week to week's is gamesmanship to maintain their popular appeal, (and avoid the NCAA adopting the eight team scenario, or any other changes that would diminish their status.)
Putting both Iowa and MSU ahead of us is superfluous, one will lose and be eliminated in any case scenario.
With a range of outcomes for the OU-OSU game, as well as the ND-Stanford game, the committee can do what ever they want with the order of OU and ND.
Scenarios exist where all three teams ahead of us could fall once, and in that case only an argument for a one loss B1GOT champion (or less) could be made to be put ahead of us. Unless OU wipes the field with OSU [which isn't happening]
and Iowa remains defeated, two teams will fall. Question is, can ND help themselves this weekend and rise?
Postscript :
This.
The final standings will be
1. ACC Champ
2. SEC Champ
3. B1G Champ
4. Big 12 (altho without a championship game) Champ
5. ND left standing with our cock in our hand.
I think there is only one way left we get in. Beat Stanford, and UofM wins the B1G Championship.
Exactly whose cock is in whose hand?
