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It seems we got the treatment usually reserved for the SEC out of the AP voters. BYU up 6 to #2, us only down 2 to #4. I certainly didn’t expect that. (BYU to 2 didn’t shock me given all the other carnage yesterday, but us staying top 5 is shocking.

I would love to get USC in a CFP game this year to remind Lincoln Riley why he wimped out of our annual series.

The best part of this is them saying if they had a blue blood helmet, they’d have been in the CFP and later in the same paragraph noting that ND is the bluest of blue bloods, but we got left out, too. So maybe the issue isn’t bias toward top programs but toward that SEC patch on Alabama and...

I think everyone doubted Oklahoma’s playoff worthiness, but they beat Alabama. That effectively punched OU’s ticket. The problem was the powers that be still let Alabama in.

I wouldn’t even go that far. If we had beaten Miami last year, it would have been viewed as a decent win over a top 20 ACC 9-3 team. Big 12 champ would be ok, but nobody would be that impressed by a win over a 10-2 TT or BYU. OSU is about the only team outside the SEC that could absorb a loss to...

In the stadium, you could easily tell which half of the stands were sold to each fan base. I don’t think there was a major disproportionate issue of ND fans selling to Wiscy fans. What I didn’t like for a supposed “home” game was a) Wiscy had a 50% distribution of tix b) lots of the on field and...

Trading a 9-3 non-playoff team for a conference champ playoff team would be gross? Texas isn’t back and Arch isn’t Peyton or Eli.

Trading a 9-3 non-playoff team for a conference champ playoff team would be gross? Texas isn’t back and Arch isn’t Peyton or Eli.

As for the South defeating contemporary European armies, it would all come down to home field advantage, The South could not successfully project power north of Virginia, with their two forays into Union territory ending at Antietam and Gettysburg. They had virtually no naval power, so I don’t...

“The Americans have never once, in their entire history, fought a major power peer adversary at the zenith of its strength in a high-intensity war” There are just so many requirements in this statement for it to be almost meaningless. The Revolutionary War was fought against perhaps the...

Winning all their games Winning a conference, so they get an autobid Beating Miami (assuming they actually do win a Natty and don’t fall 1 game short just like we did last year In all seriousness, there’s not really anything ND is “not doing” that held us back the last two years. Our schedule...

I’ve struggled to really decide, but I think you’re right.

Good thing the committee used 4/7 at large spots on that conference.

If the announcers weren’t so busy talking about why ND should be left out of the playoff at the end of the Stanford game, they could’ve said something then without a jinx.

I’m going to watch JMU out of familial obligation - my sister is a JMU alum and is a big time ND fan mostly because of me to the point that she’s flown from VA to attend the IU playoff game, A&M, and Syracuse just in the past year. But other than that, this is the most disinterested in CFB I...