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I don't think there is much that could be done, unfortunately. Maybe she could sue for damages. Truly evil.

The MOU is meaningless anyway, for reasons that have been discussed. The critical problem is the committee itself. A committee made up of people who have a financial interest in keeping ND out will always under-rank ND. I don't know if it is possible to switch to a BCS-style ranking system, or...

That wouldn't have mattered, the die was cast. I mean, they looked middling vs. Auburn and then got destroyed by UGA and actually moved up (!). It was about making money for a league. Unlike OU/ND, OU/Bama is a no-lose proposition.

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Well if anyone was worried about the media attacking ND too much, now there is something else to discuss lol

I want to be loved as much as anyone, but what exactly was the value of this goodwill for ND and MF in the past month? I didn't sense the value of the goodwill when the broadcasters were trashing ND during the ND/Stanford game at 1:30am. And definitely didn't sense it when we got screwed out of...

Sampson reporting the event is back on. Good. I'm as mad as anyone but ND is a university for heaven's sake. And this wasn't his fault anyway.

The ACC didn't want to attack Alabama because that would have upset ESPN and the SEC, and made collusion against ND impossible. That collusion is the main issue, not the mean tweets.

The Big Ten did that in 2020 to protect OSU. The alternative is likely going to cost ACC members a lot of money, so yeah, it might have been prudent to do that. The ACC is a middling league, and it shouldn't act like the Big Ten or SEC. And it should have seen that this could also create a rift...

It's mostly about line play and the QB. We never have "elite" WRs.

I'm pretty sure 11-1 and we're okay. Go look at TTU's schedule.

Why didn't the ACC powers that be change the tiebreaker? Everyone could see this problem during the season. That would have protected Miami and avoided a confrontation with ND. They didn't, preferring instead to start an anti-ND campaign and collude with the SEC to keep ND out. The ACC screwed...

It's also amazing that he was recused from voting on ND because he wrote a book about Frank Leahy. I doubt sales would go up or down much depending on whether ND made the playoff. Meanwhile, multiple ADs see their institutions benefit financially by excluding ND. If Maisel's standard applied...

The racket is all about money. ND has to fight back in kind.

Are you having a good time? Well, tell your face. ESPN loves ND? Well, tell your face.

Yurachek's explanation for why Bama didn't drop after getting smoked by UGA, while every other CG loser did -that Bama had already beaten UGA- makes even less sense, because UVA had previously beaten Duke. But UVA dropped. (Not that I need to convince anyone here that this is a racket.)

Correct. This is open, unapologetic corruption. Bevacqua mentioned the 10:30 ET start at Stanford. Who made that decision? That was extremely bizarre.

Advanced stats can account for that. Auburn is 5-7 but ranked 26, I believe, in Sagarin. Around the same as Pitt, which has a better record. But Bama barely beating Auburn is super impressive, while ND beating Pitt big isn't? Huh?

I honestly didn't think the UVA/Duke game would matter, because that wouldn't really affect how Miami or Bama compare to ND. But if you suppose that it's not about Miami but about the ACC -and CFP payouts- then yeah, collusion (with the SEC, to secure Bama's spot) is the obvious answer here...

The MOU isn't worth anything. Suddenly we're ranked 13 for no reason. But yeah, it was at least a bad year to field a great team that went 10-2: usually, 10-2 ND is in.