Notre Dame 2025

[Bash Riprock]

1 hour ago, PDB26 said:

 

Funny how the CFP had no problem having ND bust the "Cinderella bubble" in the CFP last year with Indiana on the road to play the Irish in South Bend.....

Googled the CFP committee membership...did not see a single connection to Indiana.  

Just silly....

[PDB26]

12 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Funny how the CFP had no problem having ND bust the "Cinderella bubble" in the CFP last year with Indiana on the road to play the Irish in South Bend.....

Googled the CFP committee membership...did not see a single connection to Indiana.  

Just silly....

Agreed, total nonsense. I think the closest you get is a Big Ten connection with Dantonio on the committee. 

[23andCounting]

29 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Funny how the CFP had no problem having ND bust the "Cinderella bubble" in the CFP last year with Indiana on the road to play the Irish in South Bend.....

Googled the CFP committee membership...did not see a single connection to Indiana.  

Just silly....

Although I had Notre Dame with a 55% chance of beating IU, I would argue that less than .0001% of Notre Dame fans believe any of that nonsense to be true.

[gonzoron]

3 hours ago, PDB26 said:

 

 

1 hour ago, Bash Riprock said:

Funny how the CFP had no problem having ND bust the "Cinderella bubble" in the CFP last year with Indiana on the road to play the Irish in South Bend.....

Googled the CFP committee membership...did not see a single connection to Indiana.  

Just silly....

 

49 minutes ago, PDB26 said:

Agreed, total nonsense. I think the closest you get is a Big Ten connection with Dantonio on the committee. 

 

[gonzoron]

16 hours ago, Irishman said:

That poor horse

 

[Bash Riprock]

ND’s best win of the season lost last night to an 8-4 TCU team without Josh Hoover at QB….that doesn’t help the resume

[gonzoron]

31 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

ND’s best win of the season lost last night to an 8-4 TCU team without Josh Hoover at QB….that doesn’t help the resume

I’ve figured out your unnatural hatred for Notre Dame. You’re all butthurt because no one from Centrr Grove is good enough to play there.

[PHJIrish]

Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were more deserving than James Madison and Tulane.  I still think you want the best twelve teams. Hopefully that gets cleaned up next year.

I'm sure glad that IU is included, as I have someone to root for!  I sure hope they don't come out rusty like tOSU.

[Bash Riprock]

9 hours ago, PHJIrish said:

Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were more deserving than James Madison and Tulane.  I still think you want the best twelve teams. Hopefully that gets cleaned up next year.

I'm sure glad that IU is included, as I have someone to root for!  I sure hope they don't come out rusty like tOSU.

If they are going to eliminate G5 teams and make this a P4 + ND tournament only, then they will need something for them. Because of schedules, they will never get the FPI needed. Already, the G5 has become the minor league for players desiring a P4 team and a paycheck. It’s a bummer what it’s become. 

[gonzoron]

10 hours ago, PHJIrish said:

Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were more deserving than James Madison and Tulane.  I still think you want the best twelve teams. Hopefully that gets cleaned up next year.

I'm sure glad that IU is included, as I have someone to root for!  I sure hope they don't come out rusty like tOSU.

Yes, 2025 Notre Dame would have easily beaten any of the CFP teams who have lost so far. It's discrimination to put it mildly. 

Hopefully the committee learned their lesson with all the empty seats in the first round games. Money talks, and Notre Dame certainly sells tickets.

[PHJIrish]

6 hours ago, Bash Riprock said:

If they are going to eliminate G5 teams and make this a P4 + ND tournament only, then they will need something for them. Because of schedules, they will never get the FPI needed. Already, the G5 has become the minor league for players desiring a P4 team and a paycheck. It’s a bummer what it’s become. 

Is it a national championship or not?  I have no problems with the G5 teams having a go at each other, but they certainly didn't belong among the elite teams trying to win the Natty!  

[Bash Riprock]

2 hours ago, PHJIrish said:

Is it a national championship or not?  I have no problems with the G5 teams having a go at each other, but they certainly didn't belong among the elite teams trying to win the Natty!  

You sure?  JMU sure as heck had a better showing in Eugene than TT had on a neutral field against Oregon. If JMU didn’t belong, Texas Tech sure as heck didn’t. 
 

 

[PHJIrish]

1 hour ago, Bash Riprock said:

You sure?  JMU sure as heck had a better showing in Eugene than TT had on a neutral field against Oregon. If JMU didn’t belong, Texas Tech sure as heck didn’t. 
 

 

Don't even go there!

[PDB26]

1 hour ago, Bash Riprock said:

You sure?  JMU sure as heck had a better showing in Eugene than TT had on a neutral field against Oregon. If JMU didn’t belong, Texas Tech sure as heck didn’t. 
 

 

Yeah, but JMU’s defense looked like Penn against Warren in 2003.

[Bash Riprock]

56 minutes ago, PDB26 said:

Yeah, but JMU’s defense looked like Penn against Warren in 2003.

But they could at least score. I’m just saying based on performance if JMU doesn’t belong, neither does Texas Tech. Their performance was ugly… especially offensively. 

[PDB26]

1 hour ago, Bash Riprock said:

But they could at least score. I’m just saying based on performance if JMU doesn’t belong, neither does Texas Tech. Their performance was ugly… especially offensively. 

Thing is, the score was 48-13 with three minutes left in the third and Oregon in the red zone. Moore threw a terrible interception and JMU ended up with the ball on Oregon’s 21 after a fifteen yard penalty. JMU had two long scoring drives—nearly 200 yards—in the fourth quarter. Credit to JMU for fighting to the end, but they struggled to do much of anything other than being smashed on Oregon’s windshield for most of the game.

Tech was probably more like the 5th or 6th seed, but what’s the committee going to do, put another Big Ten or SEC team in the top four even though they didn’t play on championship Saturday? The conference championship games, not conference championships, are the bugaboo for the playoff system.

[Bash Riprock]

11 minutes ago, PDB26 said:

Thing is, the score was 48-13 with three minutes left in the third and Oregon in the red zone. Moore threw a terrible interception and JMU ended up with the ball on Oregon’s 21 after a fifteen yard penalty. JMU had two long scoring drives—nearly 200 yards—in the fourth quarter. Credit to JMU for fighting to the end, but they struggled to do much of anything other than being smashed on Oregon’s windshield for most of the game.

Tech was probably more like the 5th or 6th seed, but what’s the committee going to do, put another Big Ten or SEC team in the top four even though they didn’t play on championship Saturday? The conference championship games, not conference championships, are the bugaboo for the playoff system.

I watched the game as well. Whether it was early or late, JMU mustered way more offense in Eugene than TTU could muster the entire game. I get people don’t think G5 schools belong, but not every P4 team belongs either. TTU had by far the worse SOS of any of the P4s and it showed. Their defense is solid…but offensively they were putrid. 
 

Im not advocating for JMU to be at the dance. But they put as much of a fight against UO than the 4th seed.