They also use all the advanced metrics which are basically quantified "eye tests" and all of those have us well ahead of Miami. In fact, many of them have had us a solidly top 5 team most of the season.
The major problem with the system is that the autobids were originally designed with the idea that you have five power conferences of reasonable size and then you were going to have a 6th "BCS" style auto-inclusion. With realignment and the PAC12 folding, the SEC and Big Ten got WAY BETTER... the ACC got diluted and the Big 12 got raided. But the G5 also lost most of their top teams to the Big 12 to mitigate their losses. So your G5 teams are worse than ever, the ACC is worse than ever, and the Big 12 is arguably getting shorted relative to the talent of their top teams because of bloat in the SEC.
| Miami Wins | Notre Dame Wins | ||
| 1 | Notre Dame | 1 | USC |
| 2 | Florida | 2 | Pittsburgh |
| 3 | South Florida | 3 | Boise State |
| 4 | Florida State | 4 | Arkansas |
| 5 | NC State | 5 | NC State |
| 6 | Stanford | 6 | Navy |
| 7 | Syracuse | 7 | Purdue |
| 8 | Bethune Cookman | 8 | Boston College |
| Miami Losses | Notre Dame Losses | ||
| 1 | Louisville | 1 | Texas A&M |
| 2 | SMU | 2 | Miami |
I think they should do away with the conference autobids or acknowledge the new reality of the sport and shrink them down to the two highest rated conference champions getting them. The ACC, Mid12, and the G5 conferences don't deserve an autobid.
If Michigan beats OSU:
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Calling him a hack is a compliment.
I sorta disagree on the latter considering that the finals last year was the #7 seed vs the #8 seed. I see at least 10 real contenders this year and maybe as many as 13, most wide open year ever. I don't understand the point of wasting multiple spots on teams that have no prayer of competing (UVA, GT, JMU, whoever) and having crappy blowout matchups.
There's certainly an argument to be made that the committee will value ND being a complete team over Bama, who can't run the ball particularly well or stop the run either.
This will be all the evidence that the powers that be need (CFP, TV Networks, P4 Conferences) to justify expanding to 16. And then they’ll be right back to the same argument and want to expand again. We all know it’s going to end up being two monster conferences at some point.
That may have more to do with Bama’s path than whatever their ranking is on Tuesday. They’ll be favored @ Auburn, but they’ll likely be a dog in the SEC title game, assuming they even get there. It'll get real interesting if they lose taht game.
I had totally forgotten that they had the inside track for that given that they beat Georgia head-to-head.
Bama is more likely to win the SEC than they are to get knocked out of the playoffs for losing the SEC title game.
It's so funny to me that ND has been every opposing team's Super Bowl for decades to the point that when a surefire first ballot NFL HOFer in Aaron Donald was asked what he remembered about his days in Pitt he said "beating Notre Dame" with clear pride, now all of a sudden no one cares about playing ND and doesn't even try.
I don't believe in conference autobids. If we have them it should be limited to 2 which is in better recognition of the reality of today's landscape. No way the ACC or the "Big" 12 (which is just a Frankenstein G5 conference) should get an autobid.
The committee certainly seems to value being a complete team and they've mentioned several times that part of their love of ND is the fact that our defense has turned it around and is playing at a very high level. For that reason if we're ranked above OU and Alabama I wouldn't be surprised (but wouldn't complain about OU jumping us either). OU is not a complete team, their offense sucks.
Someone pointed out in the watchparty thread that that even with Kiffin's recent success at OM their team talent composition was 21. UF hasn't been good for 15 years and their team talent composition is 12.
C'mon, at the moment I think it's clearly a better football conference than the ACC.
The ACC at least mostly looks like a conference. And two of their three big programs are down right now (F$U and Clemson).
That doesn't have anything to do with the quality of football.
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