Oregon was playing their eighth straight conference game in a row against Wisconsin. Notre Dame struggled playing its seventh game in a row against Louisville in ‘23. I don’t think Penn State has the offense to stay with Oregon.
ND has had 3 undefeated seasons in the last 12 years. 2012, 2018 and 2020. At the end of those seasons, they 0-4 to Alabama twice and Clemson twice, one being a conference championship game. Had Georgia on the schedule and went 0-2. Had Ohio State and went 0-2. Lost again to Clemson last year. Math is cool and data is fun. But to say things are different is comedy. Will things be different going forward? Maybe… your data and math might be looking into the future and that’s great. But Notre has been that team for the last few decades to win 10-11 games while losing to top tier teams and the occasional wetting of the bed to teams like NIU, Marshall or Stanford. On the field this is pretty much the same results we have seen. This data and math is writing checks they will eventually have to cash. Beating a brand like Alabama in round one would be huge for the program. I like coach Freeman. I like this team. I like where it might be potentially headed…. but let’s actually win a big game. You guys are hilarious trying to be the analytics champs all the time.
Great… change your name to PlayoffWins0520 and come back. lol.
From a talent standpoint there were teams better talented that went 9-3 than 11-1. A lot depends on regular season scheduling and that is the point I was trying to make with others. Regular season records really don’t show the whole story. Those bowl games when we get blown out shows the talent gap.
The talent gap is no longer there. 2018 Clemson? 2020 Bama? Sure, pretty substantial talent gap. 2024 Texas, Ohio St, Georgia? Not so much, minimal
Penn St. doesn't know how to get the ball to its most talented offensive player in Singleton. They try to rely on Allar too frequently as well as the other back. Their D will keep them around for a while but they will probably end up letting Allar play too much hero ball.
Still a gap and a little more than minimal but it's closer due to the amount of highend talent that leaves programs they should've never signed with to begin (like Ohio St with six 5* WRs or TAMU with four 5* DL) moreso than us moving the needle with stronger recruiting. Once we recruit a couple of elite guys a cycle that gap becomes minimal and at some point equal, but it requires stringing together 3 legit top 7-8 classes together and not a #7 class followed by a #15 class then a #11 class, then trying to hit the portal for a one year loaners at a few postitions....Not enough
Singleton would be fighting for third string at ND. Dude is not good.
That's a joke Tyler Warren is nowhere near as talented as Singleton, he's had a pretty good year although thanks in part to 2 huge games but he's certainly not an uber talented player.
Nobody said ND is where any of us want them to be yet—obviously we aren’t, but to say there hasn’t been growth and that we aren’t better than we were during the Kelly era is just asinine and without merit. You’re arguing for the sake of argument at that point.
Disagree. Enjoy being miserable.
The same Singleton who ran for 1100yds and 12 TDs fresh out of HS??😂😂 He would be splitting carries with Love in this offense right now, Price probably never shows up to campus. He would've excelled in this offense with this OL but hey he wanted to stay home in that anemic offense.
Disagree with factual statements? Enjoy being delusional
You are a miserable fan. I would take up coloring books instead of football recruiting.
I’m not sure how you can say that, we haven’t played any of those teams. Closest team we have played to that in 2024 was an average USC team for USC standards and it took two 100 yard pick 6s to beat them. I would love to come back in a few weeks and plant that flag but you are going off what? More metrics and analysis? Let’s see it.
Yes, go look at all advanced metrics. We are a top 2-3 team in the country based off performance. We have never been able to claim that in an era of advanced metrics.
Can’t wait to see advanced metrics flags flown above the stadium…
Go look at 2012, 2018, and 2020 and compare them to 2024. Let me know what you find.
AP Poll
Koon already has that one stashed as alt #5,773.
We were so far away from the top 2 or 3 teams based off all advanced analytics those years. This year we are legitimately one of those top 2 or 3 teams. AP poll really means nothing.
So when we finish #1 in advanced metrics but still lose to Oregon in the National Championship and we are ranked #2 in the AP do we fly the banner anyway?
That’s the difference between paper champions and actual champions. I’m just saying let’s see some results and put this paper to action before we start planting the flag that things have “changed”. Cool, analytically this team is good. Show me on the field not on paper is all I am saying. We finish 4th or worse analytics mean zero compared to previous teams.
Doing an announcement at 2:30
