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Conference Championship Losers

Any school who is penciled into the CFP bracket the week before going into a conference championship game this year with the probable exception of Oregon runs the risk of being left out of the CFP if they lose their conference championship game. Whereas, if they didn’t play in the conference championship game, they would remain in the CFP and get a week off to rest and heal. Didn’t all the brilliant conference commissioners like Greg Sankey, the SEC Commissioner, and athletic directors at the different schools see this coming? Perhaps Swarbrick did and kept his mouth shut all the while wondering how none of the other power players realized the sweet spot Notre Dame would always be in if they were among the highest ranked teams in any given year like this year with the hope they would always be in the running for the 5 through 8 seeds (ideally 5).
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Next Year's Offensive Line is going to be good!

Wait a minute. So the OP posted under the handle Stu4Don (im guessing a St John Bosco reference) and I replied to his post but he responded to my reply as Sjb75. Jesus dude not only have you been posing as a ND for over a decade but you also have multiple handles. 😂
WTF are you talking about?! my handle has nothing to do with John Bosco and I've never posted under another one. I'm an '78 alum who has been posting here for years. Do you hear voices too?
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Why does it seem like "hosting a playoff game" is the ultimate goal at ND these days?

Are you chase just posting under another handle? Listen: you can't win the championship unless you make the playoffs. And if you make the playoffs, wouldn't you prefer to play at home as opposed to on the road? It's really not that difficult to understand.
Exactly. What these neanderthals don't understand is you can have multiple goals. I set quarterly goals for my team and even myself, and it's usually 3.

ND football teams goals:

1. Make playoffs
2. Host playoff game
3. Win Championship

Texas series?

Games have been finalized.
September 9, 2028 at ND
September 22, 2029 at Texas

So much for ND not being able to schedule top tier teams. I love that ND is scheduling more games with the SEC. A&M, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas. They scheduled with Georgia and Texas in recent past.

Where's Quixote and Chasehisballs?

Football Place Your Bets voting: Notre Dame vs. Army

It's time for Game 11 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for CFP No. 6 Notre Dame's Shamrock Series game against Army.

ICYMI: Subscribers can compete individually in Place Your Bets for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

Instructions are included in the thread linked here and in the Google Form linked below.

@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the Friday before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 11 prop bets for Notre Dame-Army. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Saturday (7 p.m. EST on NBC).

• Over/Under 1.5 touchdowns for ND RB Jeremiyah Love
• Over/Under 3.5 catches for ND TE Mitchell Evans
• Will Notre Dame make a field goal?
• Over/Under 94.5 rushing yards for Army QB Bryson Daily
• Over/Under 4.5 completions for Army

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New uniform for Army game

I sort of like the blue-gray color of the uniform, obviously paying homage to the famous opening line of the column penned by Grantland Rice:

“Outlined against a blue, gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."

Love to see history repeat itself at Yankee Stadium.

Football Place Your Bets voting: Notre Dame vs. Army

It's time for Game 11 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for CFP No. 6 Notre Dame's Shamrock Series game against Army.

ICYMI: Subscribers can compete individually in Place Your Bets for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

Instructions are included in the thread linked here and in the Google Form linked below.

@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the Friday before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 11 prop bets for Notre Dame-Army. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Saturday (7 p.m. EST on NBC).

• Over/Under 1.5 touchdowns for ND RB Jeremiyah Love
• Over/Under 3.5 catches for ND TE Mitchell Evans
• Will Notre Dame make a field goal?
• Over/Under 94.5 rushing yards for Army QB Bryson Daily
• Over/Under 4.5 completions for Army

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Why does it seem like "hosting a playoff game" is the ultimate goal at ND these days?

........And? I mean what's the alternative? We're fans. What control do we REALLY have over how good the team is. You either stop watching, or you accept it. I really don't think the people in decision making positions need the fans to tell them whether or not the team is good. It's a weird way to even look at it anyway as the overwhelming majority of fans of ANY sports team "accept" what they are, regardless of the results on the playing field because to most people, that's all it is. It's just a hobby to take up free time and the results are what they are. And the hardcore fans aren't happy either way; either the team is losing and they're upset or the team is winning and they're upset because they're not winning by enough.

I've certainly accepted "mediocrity" with football at Notre Dame, and why? Because that's what they've been for a loooooong time now. Mediocre with some legitimately good seasons sprinkled in here and there. But a real chance to win the championship? That's not what Notre Dame has consistently been for a very long time now and if someone wanted to be really critical of Notre Dame football you can go even further back and say they've won 4 National Championships in the last 74 years, 3 of those 4 in or before 1977. They're not a modern powerhouse program. They're just not. But hey, they're a "name". So yippee and all.

Anyone on this board that was alive the last time they won a championship is AT LEAST 36 years old. But the expectation is to win championships? In what reality? Even if you're a consistently good team, it's REALLY hard to win a championship. In any sport. And Notre Dame is not a "consistently good team" in this new era of college football where there's a ton of parity and they're not the only team on national television every week.

I'm not saying they can't win a championship. They can. But the days of them living up to the expectations that a # of you here put on them....I don't know man. I just don't know what reality you're seeing. Because those days are long gone. They're not just another name to you because you love Notre Dame, and whatever. That's fine. But what the hell do 18 year olds coming out of high school right now care about the "tradition" and name of Notre Dame when they have to go to their grandfather for it, and even he is getting to the point where it's getting hard to remember.
Yawn.

Texas series?

To my knowledge all of the SEC log jam teams have one good OOC game. UGA is an overwhelming favorite to playoff because they have a great win against one of the good ACC teams.

I would even guess the odds might be better if an SEC team scheduled 4 wins OOC, but the difference would be too slight to affect a program's scheduling philosophy. The big question now is whether the SEC goes to 9 conference games, which of course will not help its playoff outlook.
Alabama beat Wisconsin, Tennessee beat nc state, ole miss beat wake forest…. None of those are needle movers and 2 of those 3 are ahead of Georgia that has the best win ooc

Northern Illinois

That was a luck pass not intended for the guy who ran the touchdown. Regardless, we should NOT have lost that game.
No it was not, it was intended for him. There were two receivers in the area, and the one who caught it was who it was clearly intended for. That wasn't an extenuating circumstance. It was a gorgeous play in fact. Right between two defenders. Threaded the needle.
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