Footballking16

I will assure you the last thing IU fans are worried about is Notre Dame lol. -signed, an IU fan

BYU has a better resume than Notre Dame. How are you going to go after the committee for adhering to their rules? The top 5 highest rated conference champions get automatic bids, this isn’t hard. JOIN A DAMN CONFERENCE

Shocking the committee got it right so kudos to them.

James Madison won their conference championship and will be ranked ahead of Duke. The 5 highest rated conference champions get automatic bids, which includes James Madison. How do you still not understand how the process works?

Tulane and James Madison are both getting in. Your refusal to acknowledge Miami’s head to head win over ND is comical.

Notre Dame hasn’t played anybody in 2 months lol. Of course they look good. And you better hope Texas Tech beats BYU or Notre Dame and Miami are both out.

What is not objective about head to head? Miami and ND are both 10-2. Miami beat ND on the field. What are we even doing?

In 1993? There were no playoffs nor designate title games. People voted on champions. Different era.

Arkansas is 2-10. It’s going to be a miserable Sunday for Notre Dame fans at this stage.

The question was never about ND’s national title odds. It was whether or not they deserve to be in the field. If the last at-large spot comes down to Miami and ND, and it appears it is headed that way, there is no way Miami should be left out. Why play the games then?

Who?

Did they cannibalize each other? Exactly one bottom half SEC team beat a top half SEC team; Florida over Texas back in September. That's it. The bottom of the SEC was terrible this year. Florida lost to South Florida. Arkansas lost to Memphis. UK lost 41-0 to Louisville. South Carolina lost at home to 6-6 Clemson. It's an overrated conference and has been the last couple of seasons. But ESPN has too much stake in the game to say otherwise.

Simple, the SEC....again....was simply overvalued. Missouri and Tennessee didn't beat a team with a winning record the entire year and were ranked throughout up until the final poll. We were fed the narrative all summer and all season long the the SEC was 11-12 teams deep. At the conclusion of the season, there isn't a single SEC ranked in the top 5 of Sagarin, ESPN's FPI, and SP+, all predicative and analytical rankings that I take much more seriously than any human poll. Get ready to to do it again all over. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Like I said, pure arrogance.

Why is it that the ND and SEC crowd have such a hard time grasping on-field results? There were about 2 or 3 SEC fanbases who swore up and down that their 9-3 teams would have been national champions had only the been included in the field. They're all delusional.

Indiana beat every team on it's schedule including a top 5 team on the road. If Notre Dame did that we wouldn't be having this conversation. They didn't however.

I cheer for IU because I went there and hate Notre Dame because I didn't. What's hard to understand about that? I don't like Ohio State. I don't like Michigan. I don't like Purdue. Why would I like any of those schools?

Exhibit A above. You, a ND fan, don't even know how the playoff selection works, yet it's tragedy they aren't going to make it? Just say it, you believe Notre Dame should be in because their name is Notre Dame. We all know it. Reality is that ND's schedule is a joke, they beat one halfway decent team all year, and lost to the two best teams on their schedule....one of them being a team with the same record jockeying for the last playoff spot. Notre Dame doesn't deserve anything this year. As far as the IU/ND basketball comparison, totally agree. Yet as an IU basketball fan I can totally accept that reality. IU has been largely irrelevant nearly my entire life and sans a few one of year downright bad. I have no shame in admitting that however. Notre Dame fans can't accept the fact that the sports has passed them by and they are no longer the center of college football. I get it.

That is not the job of the committee lol. 1-12 DO NOT make the playoff, good lord. The 5 highest rated conference champions all receive an automatic bid and then the rest of the field is compromised of the remaining 7 best at-large teams. Notre Dame is the last at-large team in the field as it stands....for now. I disliked Notre Dame long before I attended Cathedral. I don't like Notre Dame because their fans are obnoxiously arrogant despite being hardly relevant in nearly 40 years. The proof is in the pudding.

I mean Oklahoma did beat Alabama. At Alabama no less. Would agree that Alabama is probably in unless they get 50 pieced. Will be interested to see if an Alabama loss moves the Irish back in front of ND, putting them safely in the field in the order to get both programs in or if they stay put at 9 and have Miami and ND fight it out for the last at-large.

It's not a tragedy. Tulane will have won their conference championship. Notre Dame knows full and well that the 5 top rated conference champions get an automatic bid to the playoff. This isn't coming down to Tulane and Notre Dame. Miami and Notre Dame are battling for the last at-large spot. Miami beat Notre Dame On.The.Field. SP+, Sagarin, etc are all irrelevant in this instance.

I know he's a Purdue legacy but do we know if Kiffin extend him an offer to LSU?

I honestly think Penn State thought they could pry Elko from A&M, bringing him home back East. I believe they made a run at Drinkwitz at Missouri as well. I'm convinced that Jimmy Sexton is purposefully sabotaging Penn State with they way they did James Franklin who is also a CAA client. At least 3 different Sexton/CAA clients have all leveraged Penn State for extensions and raises.

I'd be extremely worried about Kelly's fire at this age. Dude has made close to $100 million and has another $54 million coming his way. Penn State literally has no incoming freshman class and I doubt Kelly would be able to drag a bunch LSU kids to the middle of Pennsylvania.