2026 Watch Party: Week 8

[MPClinton22]

I mean, the yards were always there to be had on the ground. We just decided not to take them

 

[IrishTusker]

BYU winning or losing doesn't actually matter. We lost to NIU and got in. It would have been better last year to lose to Purdue and beat Miami and A&M. Win and we're in. Lose and we're sweating.

 

[402puck]

Their coaches are

Silly

 

[MPClinton22]

BYU winning or losing doesn't actually matter. We lost to NIU and got in. It would have been better last year to lose to Purdue and beat Miami and A&M. Win and we're in. Lose and we're sweating.

I mean, yes and no - beat Miami and it doesn’t matter. But we’d rather BYU go undefeated than pick up a loss or two where the head to head could become a factor again.

 

[mhiowa82]

Smu is dogshit

 

[MPClinton22]

Amazing what happens when you don’t give BYU a huge cushion on defense.

What the fuck were we doing last week

 

[IA4irish]

Amazing what happens when you don’t give BYU a huge cushion on defense.

What the fuck were we doing last week

Not to rehash everything, but I literally don’t know if we could’ve had a worse game plan on both offense and defense.

BYU is closer to the 20th ranked team than they are the 2nd ranked team. I don’t care what the polls say

 

[Silentkaw]

Crazy play by Mississippi state WR.

 

[MPClinton22]

Not to rehash everything, but I literally don’t know if we could’ve had a worse game plan on both offense and defense.

BYU is closer to the 20th ranked team than they are the 2nd ranked team. I don’t care what the polls say

I know this is a let down spot for BYU but this actually is making me even angrier, because it shines even more a light on the incompetence of the game plan we put on the field last week.

 

[arrowryan]

Is ucf better than ND?

There’s a lot of teams better than ND.

 

[indianamouse]

There’s a lot of teams better than ND.

like who?

 

[Crazy Balki]

I think we're seeing just how chaotic CFB has become.

Georgia lost to Auburn at home last week. Auburn got absolutely curbstomped at home by LSU today.

This season has been the living definition of the phrase "any given week".

 

[Bane]

Gutless call there by UCF.

 

[arrowryan]

like who?

OSU, Georgia, Alabama, Miami, and BYU

 

[IA4irish]

I think we're seeing just how chaotic CFB has become.

Georgia lost to Auburn at home last week. Auburn got absolutely curbstomped at home by LSU today.

This season has been the living definition of the phrase "any given week".

yes, but notre dame didn’t get beat while putting their best foot forward. Hell they didn’t even have a fluky turnover game. They had an atrocious game plan against a so-so program

 

[Dale]

yes, but notre dame didn’t get beat while putting their best foot forward. Hell they didn’t even have a fluky turnover game. They had an atrocious game plan against a so-so program

I imagine every fanbase that lost thinks they didn’t play their best

 

[MPClinton22]

OSU, Georgia, Alabama, Miami, and BYU

OSU and Alabama are mid. Georgia lost at home to a bad Auburn team. I think we all need to readjust to a CFB landscape where every team is flawed in ways the best teams weren’t in previous eras.

 

[Blazers46]

OSU and Alabama are mid. Georgia lost at home to a bad Auburn team. I think we all need to readjust to a CFB landscape where every team is flawed in ways the best teams weren’t in previous eras.

ND has a coaching flaw.

 

[Dale]

Kasper for Porter, who says no???

 

[IrishTusker]

ND has a coaching flaw.

Several

 

[IA4irish]

I imagine every fanbase that lost thinks they didn’t play their best

Absolutely. Georgia example - Stockton had 3 turnovers. We were +2 in turnovers and still got thoroughly beat

 

[indianamouse]

OSU and Alabama are mid. Georgia lost at home to a bad Auburn team. I think we all need to readjust to a CFB landscape where every team is flawed in ways the best teams weren’t in previous eras.

to add to this, miami and byu both struggled t mid teams

 

[IA4irish]

Remember when nd coaching staff actually thought deuce knight would come to nd and do well instead of taking a flier on bachmeier who would’ve given anything to be at nd?

 

[Dale]

MSU giving UCLA problems with their third string QB, third string RB, and basically backup defense. Northwestern too last week. We got prime version of them and now they are causing fits for these Big Ten second tier CFP contenders. Reminiscent of Arkansas last year.

 

[Jeffwantpoppers]

ND fans acting like Bama is good is so funny. Good way of telling me you don’t watch anything but ND.

 

[Bane]

This is the real Bear Bachmeier by the way, he's this year's Marcel Reed.

 

[IrishTusker]

UCF has officially played a better half against BYU than we did. Yikes.

 

[arrowryan]

ND fans acting like Bama is good is so funny. Good way of telling me you don’t watch anything but ND.

Didn’t say they were good. Just that they’re better than ND.

 

[Dale]

Alex Grinch having a better defense at UCF than Lincoln Riley does at USC currently says a lot

 

[IrishinSyria]

OSU and Alabama are mid. Georgia lost at home to a bad Auburn team. I think we all need to readjust to a CFB landscape where every team is flawed in ways the best teams weren’t in previous eras.

And even then, Saban went undefeated twice. Football is hard.