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Don't care for ND but I thought style points mattered? Or maybe not. ND barely lost 27-24 to Miami and 41-40 to A&M where Bama gets beat by FSU 31-17 and destroyed by UGA. In fact did the committee even care about the SECCG? Or had they already made up their collective minds?
My daddy used to tell me:"Son, Notre Dame is my second favorite team. Now, who they playin' is my favorite team!"
Anyone who doesn't think that right now the Irish are playing as well as any top 5 team in the country is high on something. They started the year with a true freshman QB that got thrown into the fire against a talented Miami defense and a 6th year college QB. Well Notre Dame has ascended and gotten better each week while Miami languished in the doldrums mid-season.
Personally I'm glad we won't have to face the Irish this year. Just roll the tape CFP committee.
How Notre Dame handles their gripe is one thing, but they do have a gripe.
What you say is true. ND is/was playing as well as anyone right now. I actually wanted UGA to play them and maybe get some revenge for last year. I doesn't hurt my feelings to avoid ND in the playoffs.
I think the committee is a cluster flop. They each bring their own bias, prejudice and agenda . More than anything the committee stuck it to ND for putting themselves above CFB and not joining any conference.
Some may not agree but sometimes teams have a good loss . I believe the Alabama loss was good for this young team . If they would have won I’m not sure they would be as hungry and mature as they are now .
@UGADad20 "ND is/was playing as well as anyone right now."
All of the playoff contenders would be playing as well as anyone right now against the 10 teams that Notre Dame beat: USC, Pitt, Boise, Wake Forest, Navy, Stanford, Syracuse, Boston College, Arkansas and Purdue. And the layout of their schedule was convenient to Notre Dame too. Had they followed up the Miami and A&M losses with games against USC (who gave them a competitive game) and Pitt, they may well have started out the season 1-3 or 0-4. Instead ND got to tune up against 2-10 Purdue, 2-10 Arkansas, Boise in a down year and 7-5 NC State before their sole win against a ranked team (#16 USC) all season in October. It got so bad that ND fans at one point were hyping up Pitt as a quality win … until Miami beat them worse than ND did, which caused ND fans to accuse Miami of running up the score. This despite … Notre Dame 70 Syracuse 7.
Before you say "it is not Notre Dame's fault that Pitt, Boise, Wake Forest, Navy, Stanford, Syracuse, Boston College, Arkansas and Purdue were all mediocre this year" … consider what you are saying. The only one that it applies to is Arkansas. The others are service academies, mid majors, basketball schools and a faded football power that hasn't been relevant since the 1980s. Oh yes, and Stanford. Notre Dame quietly started making their schedule easier a few years ago by scheduling more "second tier" programs like A&M and Arkansas (instead of Texas and LSU) and ending their Michigan rivalry. And this was BEFORE they joined the ACC and cut a deal where they would only have to play a couple of the ACC's actual football schools a year.
It just so happens that Notre Dame's attempt to schedule themselves into the playoffs ran into the best Texas A&M team since the Johnny Manziel era and one of the best 5 seasons for that program ever (most of their other big seasons came in an SWC that was a glorified mid-major and usually ended with their getting hammered in the Cotton Bowl).
We need more people to call Notre Dame out on this. In the Big 10 Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Penn State and USC all have to compete against each other to make the playoff. In the SEC there is the Big 6 plus Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma (Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Missouri have their moments also). Granted the ACC is weak but no one gives their schools the benefit of the doubt that Notre Dame gets. As recently as late November, Georgia Tech was 9-1 and still not in the top 15. Virginia was 10-2, in the ACC title game and ranked #18. No more crocodile tears for ND until they put Michigan back on their schedule, or replace them with another team that finishes in the top 10-15 every year, at the very least.
Nice article, Conner! I agree with you on almost everything except one—-We haven't slayed the Alabama dragon—we need to beat them consistently over a period of years to realise this. Remember Kirby is still only 2and 7 against that dragon.
“Alabama very nearly missed the College Football Playoff this year because of how poorly it played…It’s fair to wonder what an extra loss might have done to Ole Miss or Oklahoma.”
No wonder to it, they would have been kicked to the CFP curb, special treatment ONLY applies to Bama, everyone knows that, the end…
Notre Dame lost to Miami by 3 and Texas A&M by 1 , their 2 losses by just 4 points. THe past 6 ganes they have averaged scoring 44 point per game and given up an aver. of 14 points per game. I don't care if you are playing Charlotte and Asutin PEay that's not too shabby.
Not dropping Bama down or moving UGA in the rankings proves the SECCG meant absolutely nothing to the cfp committe.