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ND overperformed their “talent” level in 2024 and 2025, where we had a team that was 9-10 in team talent but finished power rated top 3 each year. Pretty damn impressive and bodes well for the future. IU is the exception. If you look across the sport, team talent still mattered a ton. These...

ND ended the season #3 in pretty much every advanced metric system: DokterEntropy: 3 Sargarin: 3 TeamRankings.com: 3 ESPN FPI: 3 Massey Power: 3 Would have been ~5pt dog to IU on a neutral field. painful.

With no OOC game to boost the schedule, tough to believe they get in at 10-2 if we stay at 12. Lot of unknowns with Michigan and Washington. USC should be a fringe top 10 team imo. Ducked us at the wrong time funny enough.

He’s truly a title away from replacing Saban as the face of the sport. He’s already the most respected by his peers according to that athletic poll.

Uh guys, I just looked and we are currently tied with OSU as the betting favorite to win the 2026-27 natty. What a thing to type.

I think 2024 OSU beats both of these teams pretty soundly, which makes me want to vomit.

We’re in bad shape boys

I don’t think we would have beat IU. We made too many mistakes that we just made up for with talent. We could be the #2 team in the country tho.

Such a pussy move

Truly don’t get it. They are a machine.

I just don’t get how IU’s front 7 is so good. They are undersized and not super athletic. Michigan-esque sign stealing seems somewhat reasonable imo.

IU’s undersized DL vs Miami’s OL is Miami’s biggest advantage imo. Why are they throwing 3 straight passes.

Loghan Thomas should watch that Lightfoot play on repeat

Miami winning is less likely to adversely affect us which is all I really care about. Maybe if Miami beats us next year again I’ll feel differently.

Rooting for Miami but think IU covers. Miami makes too many mistakes.

Great example of post-Ozempic weird head to body ratio

ESPN / Disney controls the sport and playoff process. As long as teams are chosen arbitrarily, It’s unwise to piss them off in our independent position. The ACC on the other hand has zero power. Which is why Pete B felt so comfortable calling them out.

He’s being too kind (as usual) in saying we shouldn’t have been in over Bama. I’m sure the man to his left had some influence on his verbiage there.

Petty, but All of these Coogan pieces just bother me more than they should because they never state that he wasn’t going to start at ND.

I’d say “we are back” but that would imply we’ve been at this level of talent acquisition at any point in 30+ years.