Will this latest beating prove to all once and for all ND is a paper team? They need to join a conference and play real teams, this shows once again hey are not a top 10 team much less top 4 team. At some point reality has to set in, Notre Dame is a joke and dos not belong in any playoff until they play a real schedule.
Will the CFP committee finally realize ND does not belong?
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An undefeated ND won't make it next year. Or the next three years. Mark my words. Unless the next team up has 3 losses.
The committee says it doesn't take into aching the previous year but we all know that's a lie. Case in point, the reason Ohio State didn't make it last year and Bama did was due to the bad taste in their mouth from the previous Ohio State performance against Clemson.
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They rank with UCF to me, play real teams or shut up. You are not up to the challenge of big boy football. between this los and what we did to them in NC a few yars back, they have been exposed for what they are, mediocre.
They do schedule real teams every year. By name alone, ND has one of the hardest schedules out there. But then, in a season like this one, every one of those teams has what is essentially a down year and ND benefits from an undefeated record and name recognition for both them and their opponents.
Then they face a top 10 team and.......
See previous example; January 2013.
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Michigan was their best win.
I think ND and Oklahoma always gets undeserving title bouts when they are less than 2 losses. I can get behind ND’s schedule but Oklahoma’s Mickey Mouse schedule is worse imo.
Uh, they played a tougher schedule than Clemson did.....does Clemson therefore not belong?
Every time I read the whole "Notre Dame should join a conference" argument......I wonder how many folks know the actual history behind that.
I'll give you a hint: Notre Dame WANTED to join a conference from day one.
I'll give you a hint: Notre Dame WANTED to join a conference from day one.
If Notre Dame is 12-0 next December, they will be in the CFP unless there are 4 other undefeated teams or some very special circumstance.
Agreed. OU has been competitive most of the time, but they are 0-6 in BCS/CFP playoff games since 2003. All 4 of the world beater Hypesman QB's have lost to SEC teams.
Maybe Norte Dame should just forgo a bowl and have the AP name them National Champions just like 50+ years ago.
To be fair to the committee this is the first year they put them in. 2012 was still BCS.
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This is spot on with regard to the Big Ten, whose members refused to play a Catholic school in the early days, though I’m not convinced it’s relevant to their aversion to other conferences in football. ND has taken that discrimination and turned it into the defining experience of ND football nationhood, which is what Father Jenkins means when he talks about football independence being part of their identity as a school...
I guess I'm showing my age, but that's exactly my point.
The then Western Conference "don't need Notre Dame."
Fifty years later, the foot was on the other hand.
And as much as I hate Notre Dame they TEND to schedule tough. What has decreased their schedule toughness is they basically agreed to "not join a conference but will play the ACC in five games." So they replaced Michigan St (usually good) with teams like Wake Forest.
And if they join the ACC and have to drop USC, fans who demand they join a conference will whine about that, too.
I'll bite. So, how long ago was that? It would be hard to convince me that, during the past several conference expansions, not a single conference was willing to take the Irish. They are presently not in a conference for one simple reason: they don't want to be. Actually, they are currently in a conference: of one, and are essentially the 6th P5 conference. They don't have to share any of that NBC money, don't have a conference championship game, and schedule as they wish. While The Committee can't force them join a conference, they do have the ability to punish them for electing not to do so - whether or not they have the intestinal fortitude to do that is another issue.
Frankly, I'm not concerned with whether ND joins a conference and don't know why anyone else cares either.
As long as they continue to schedule P5 schools any none or one loss ND will get equal consideration.
As long as they continue to schedule P5 schools any none or one loss ND will get equal consideration.
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