Bowl Projections 2024

[Armyirish47]

Oh you didn't know? Your ass better call somebody!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages....it's time for projecting!!!!

Little tricky right now with everybody picking the playoff spots but that just makes for moar fun!

The ESPN.com...playoffs? Playoffs?

ESPN has the Irish in the playoff as a.....#7 seed.

First Round game:
Bonagura: No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 7 Notre Dame
Schlabach: No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 7 Notre Dame

Top four is Georgia, Ohio State, Miami and Utah.

College football news with the juice

Saturday, December 21
8:00, ABC/ESPN
Home site of higher seed
12 Memphis at 5 Notre Dame

Same top 4, but they pick the Irish to roll the Canes and play Ohio State in a semifinal for the ages.

Jerry Palm is a handful

CBS Sports is on some bullshit. But a fun matchup...

No 9 Notre Dame at.........No 8 Penn State

 

[Armyirish47]

Well obviously things change, but bowl game swag is eternal! Updated after week 3.

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DirecTV Holiday Bowl
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Schlabach: Notre Dame vs. Arizona

Taxslayer Gator Bowl
Jacksonvegas, FL
Bonagura: Notre Dame vs. Texas A&M (honestly this guy isn't even trying)

The USATODAY.com

Holiday Bowl
Notre Dame vs. Washington St

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Lets gooooooo

College Football Playoff First Round​

Friday, December 20
8:00, ABC/ESPN
Home site of higher seed
Bowl Projection: 10 Penn State at 7 Notre Dame

 

[Huntr]

 

[Armyirish47]

Not so fast my friends, save those Tarts for another day!

College Football News

Friday, December 20
8:00, ABC/ESPN
Home site of higher seed
Bowl Projection: 11 Penn State at 6 Notre Dame

CBS says maybe Pop Tarts still on the menu?

Dec. 28

Pop-Tarts

Notre Dame

vs. BYU

ACC vs. Big 12

3:30 p.m.

Orlando, Fla.

The ESPN.com PLUS!

Bonagura: #12 Notre Dame at No 5 Oregon
Schlabach Music: #11 Notre Dame at No 6 Georgia (No thanks)

 

[GATTACA!]

Oh god imagine getting to throttle PSU in a home playoff game. I'm salivating.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I'd lose all sense of rational thought if ND played Penn State. Beating Coach No Show would be fantastic regardless of circumstance.

 

[stlnd01]

They probably don't specify but curious if the people who have us seeded 11 or 12 envision one loss or two? Feels like if we win out we'd be higher than that.

 

[CANONIZEFATHERSORIN]

They probably don't specify but curious if the people who have us seeded 11 or 12 envision one loss or two? Feels like if we win out we'd be higher than that.

Yeah no way we’re #11 or #12 at 11-1. Honestly we’d probably be top 5. Question really is do we make it in at #11 or #12 with two losses. We really need either Louisville or USC to look good. There is no universe where a win over Army or Navy actually gets respected

 

[OhioIrish]

They probably don't specify but curious if the people who have us seeded 11 or 12 envision one loss or two? Feels like if we win out we'd be higher than that.

Idk, that NIU loss looks worse every week. Teams that will likely be ranked ahead of us at year’s end: all 4 conference champs, SEC runner up, Big 10 runner up, and 1 at-large from Big 10 or SEC (probably Tennessee or Penn St). I think our ceiling is #8 if we win out.

 

[stlnd01]

Idk, that NIU loss looks worse every week. Teams that will likely be ranked ahead of us at year’s end: all 4 conference champs, SEC runner up, Big 10 runner up, and 1 at-large from Big 10 or SEC (probably Tennessee or Penn St). I think our ceiling is #8 if we win out.

By December the NIU game will be three months old and no one besides a handful of ND message board bedwetters will remember it.

That said, I tend to agree 7 or 8 is probably our ceiling. It's interesting to game out whether a two-loss team that doesn't make its conference title game would slot in ahead of one-loss Notre Dame. Tennessee might, as going 10-2 would require them to beat either Georgia or Bama. Bama probably also would if they lost to Tennessee. IDK that Penn State does. Their schedule is not actually that difficult.

 

[Katzenboyer]

Would absolutely love taking on PSU in South Bend. Best case scenario for ND.

 

[dankgesang]

By December the NIU game will be three months old and no one besides a handful of ND message board bedwetters will remember it.

That said, I tend to agree 7 or 8 is probably our ceiling. It's interesting to game out whether a two-loss team that doesn't make its conference title game would slot in ahead of one-loss Notre Dame. Tennessee might, as going 10-2 would require them to beat either Georgia or Bama. Bama probably also would if they lost to Tennessee. IDK that Penn State does. Their schedule is not actually that difficult.

Sweet summer child

 

[ulukinatme]

I prefer the scenarios where we face an SEC team at home in December. The weather will play to our favor much more than if we face another Midwest team like PSU. Some poll had us facing Ole Miss at home for the first round. I think that could go very well, get us our first playoff win.

 

[RipWheeler]

I hate Oregon with a passion and I would make the short trip to see that game.

 

[JadedDomer]

There's no way we're in CFP and beyond #8. We're either in the playoffs ~5-7 or we're out with a 2nd loss. Projecting ND around 11/12 is silly.

 

[irishff1014]

By December the NIU game will be three months old and no one besides a handful of ND message board bedwetters will remember it.

That said, I tend to agree 7 or 8 is probably our ceiling. It's interesting to game out whether a two-loss team that doesn't make its conference title game would slot in ahead of one-loss Notre Dame. Tennessee might, as going 10-2 would require them to beat either Georgia or Bama. Bama probably also would if they lost to Tennessee. IDK that Penn State does. Their schedule is not actually that difficult.

You can get mad all you want at the end of the day that is the loss that is going to hold this team back.

 

[DillonHall]

There's no way we're in CFP and beyond #8. We're either in the playoffs ~5-7 or we're out with a 2nd loss. Projecting ND around 11/12 is silly.

You never know- the way things look right now, a lot of Playoff contenders may end up with 3 losses

 

[stlnd01]

You can get mad all you want at the end of the day that is the loss that is going to hold this team back.

Sure, if we hadn't lost to NIU, we would be on track for the 5 seed, and could probably drop one more and still make the playoffs. Instead, we're looking at the ~7 or 8 seed if we win out and probably can't afford another loss. In that sense, yes, it holds us back. But if we win the games we should - which is all of them - we will be fine.

I'm not mad. I've just accepted it and moved on. Maybe try that?

 

[Blazers46]

Sure, if we hadn't lost to NIU, we would be on track for the 5 seed, and could probably drop one more and still make the playoffs. Instead, we're looking at the ~7 or 8 seed if we win out and probably can't afford another loss. In that sense, yes, it holds us back. But if we win the games we should - which is all of them - we will be fine.

I'm not mad. I've just accepted it and moved on. Maybe try that?

I prefer you to be miserable

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

There's no way we're in CFP and beyond #8. We're either in the playoffs ~5-7 or we're out with a 2nd loss. Projecting ND around 11/12 is silly.

This is correct

 

[OhioIrish]

By December the NIU game will be three months old and no one besides a handful of ND message board bedwetters will remember it.

That said, I tend to agree 7 or 8 is probably our ceiling. It's interesting to game out whether a two-loss team that doesn't make its conference title game would slot in ahead of one-loss Notre Dame. Tennessee might, as going 10-2 would require them to beat either Georgia or Bama. Bama probably also would if they lost to Tennessee. IDK that Penn State does. Their schedule is not actually that difficult.

I hope you are right. But at that point in the schedule the quality of your losses will be the most decisive factor, it always has been.

 

[NDRock]

Sure, if we hadn't lost to NIU, we would be on track for the 5 seed, and could probably drop one more and still make the playoffs. Instead, we're looking at the ~7 or 8 seed if we win out and probably can't afford another loss. In that sense, yes, it holds us back. But if we win the games we should - which is all of them - we will be fine.

I'm not mad. I've just accepted it and moved on. Maybe try that?

Personally speaking, I recently got over ‘93 Boston College and am working through’05 USC, will be awhile before I get over NIU.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Personally speaking, I recently got over ‘93 Boston College and am working through’05 USC, will be awhile before I get over NIU.

Wait till you start working on the 07 season.

 

[ulukinatme]

Personally speaking, I recently got over ‘93 Boston College and am working through’05 USC, will be awhile before I get over NIU.

Wait till you start working on the 07 season.

I had to completely blank out my memories from '07 and '16...but '93 BC and '05 USC still haunt me. Some things you saw in person will stay with you a long, long time.

 

[SWirishfan]

Wait till you start working on the 07 season.

But

 

[NDRock]

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Charlie really needed the portal back then. Wasn’t much you could do when Ty decided to not recruit OL for a couple years.

 

[ulukinatme]

Charlie really needed the portal back then. Wasn’t much you could do when Ty decided to not recruit OL for a couple years.

100%. 2007 was a perfect storm where the last classes Davie recruited were out the door and Weis' Junior/Senior leaders were a bunch of struggling athletes that Ty brought in during his last two years. Ty's first class wasn't awful, he was rolling off that one good year when he had an experienced defense. His last two classes were pretty much garbage though with the '05 class Weis inherited being just 15 kids with the closest stars being David Grimes and Kyle McKarthy.

Whiffing on one class is bad enough, but back to back classes can't happen. Same thing happened with BK and Long in the 2019 and 2020 awful classes, it reared it's head in 2022 when we were forced to start freshmen and sophomores because the upperclassmen talent was MIA or lacking.