Excellent teams often slip up vs only good teams. You see examples every season. Bama losing to LSU, & Tennessee losing to South Carolina just last year.
9 wins easy then it gets interesting
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Excellent teams often slip up vs only good teams. You see examples every season. Bama losing to LSU, & Tennessee losing to South Carolina just last year.
Really? many on here believe BK is a top 5 coach and he had trouble putting away many of these types of teams. He also had his share of bad losses, Tulsa, Navy x 2, Stanford, 4-8 in year 7, I could go on.
In 21 with BK as coach we beat
Unranked fsu by 3
Mac toledo by 3
Unranked VT by 3
In 20 with bk
Unranked Louisville by 5
In 19 with Bk
Unranked VT by 1
Unranked SC by 3
In 18 with Bk
Unranked Ball state by 8
Unranked Vandy by 5
Unranked Pitt by 5
Unranked Sc by 7
Long term Head Caoches make those games way more interesting than they should be....
BK may be a top 5 or 10 coach when it comes to, you know, coaching players. But I don't think he is a top 25 recruiter, and his gameday strategy has sometimes been questionable. If he succeeds at LSU, it will be in part because he has others doing the bulk of the recruiting.
This schedule isn't tough compared some of the schedules lou holtz faced.
I like The Irish head coach but an OC stepping into a position with little experience in fact the Hartman might have more experience with calling the plays
Brian Kelly would need to win a NC top be a top five coach or maybe a playoff game at the least as far as coaching players let's just say some players
The sky is blue
And the earth is round
I am sure you will argue against both smh
Yes, ND vs Duke, NC st, Pitt should be locks every year they play. So yes, I am calling NINE locks
A team not even in the top 25 vs ND should be a lock.
Duke is average. They will be lucky to finish top 3 in the garbage ACC
Justin field’s transfer
Joe Burrow transfer
I can go on
Nothing wrong with transfers
I'm not sure of that. It seems it could be a following seasons roster buster as much as helper
Duke finished 9 and 4 last year. Finished the year ranked 26th in the country.
They have a really good qb with a really good coach
Their 4 losses were by a combined 16 points.
They are a quality team that we will have to play well against
At the end of the day, those losses do and will happen. But there is no excuse for ND to lose to Duke (averaging 55th in recruiting over the last 4 years) and Louisville averaging 39th). Much better talent paired with great coaching should = no concern. But we’re all ND fans and know the likes of Marshal, Tulsa and Navy have beaten us far more often than ND has beaten Top teams. Here’s To MF bucking the trend.
Smh
You had zero concerns when ND played Cincinnati. I said from the start that was a tough game.
Now you are hesitant to lock Duke????
If Bama played Duke tomorrow, Vegas would call that a lock, what are you talking about???
Can somebody pull the data on Georgia, Alabama and Oh St’s record over the last 5 years against teams outside the Top 25?
Alabama has not lost to an unranked team since Nov. 16, 2007 falling to Louisiana Monroe 21–14.
Any game outside the top 25 should be an ND lock
ND being favored by 7.5 points wins 73% of the time. So, less than 3 out of 4 games.
I hope the coaches and players don't believe these games are locks, otherwise we will be in for a long season.
ND's schedule just lost a top ten opponent. Clemson won't completely fall out of the rankings, but they should. At least for this week.
And your point is?
Does making it 30 yrs ago make a difference?
Are teams from the past inferior to today?
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