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Speaking of looking lost, did anyone watch Louisville at Clemson? Clemson looked like they were sleepwalking through half that game, which was a physical battering that should be good for our resume, no?
He made a parody of proper grammar with that one, eh? Or should I say parity? Quite the malapropism.
Just really challenging to play the week after a huge emotional exceptionally high energy game. South Carolina came in highly charged as the big underdog, and simply outplayed TAM at damn near every position. The TAM OL was sluggish as hell, and SC DL played with high energy and kicked their collective asses. The TAM DL and backers were really undisciplined, and that goes beyond just a flat performance. Flat performances after a huge emotional game are pretty common, but really surprised by TAM’s defensive lapses, especially following the halftime opportunity to make adjustments.
No shit it was a shit loss. He said it was the worst loss on ND history.
That is inaccurate and stupid
What part didnt you understand?
It wasn't a letdown. The better team won, there really weren't any lapses, SCe just made plays. A&M's not that great. They can beaten be them if you outplay them, and the cocks were up for the moment.
Better team won. A&M didn't do anything that bad they just lost.
One where the score wasn’t the game. It was a 1 score game fairly late when AM turns it over on a pick. They also had some poor 4th down plays. SC exposed a young QB. While the other dude has no upside, he probably manages that game better in the 4th. I’m sure there was a bit of a let down. They put so much into LSU but SC could easily have beaten GA and Bama. Much better than their record I think.
I don't agree. I don't think A&M's that great, there's no basis for that presumption. This is just good SEC teams taking turns beating each other, that's all it was. There's no reason at all to look at this from the default perspective of A&M should have won this game, they're the clearly the better team, and somehow they let it get away from. They're not, they just got their ass kicked. It wasn't a blowout, but the better team definitely won. I can't remember if A&M even lead. I guess they did for a bit in the 2nd quarter.
LSU is the team that blew it. They let it get away from them. That was quite the collapse, and A&M just steamrolled them in the 2nd half with the QB switch and all those picks. A&M wasn't lucky and totally deserved the win, but LSU definitely didn't consolidate their considerable advantage in the first half.
To be fair South Carolina had a pick 6 to seal the win vs LSU but a SC defender made a bone head play and took a cheap shot on Nussmeirer on the return. South Carolina could be in the SEC/playoff mix at 6-2.
Agreed with this I don't believe in "let down" or "coming out flat" games. That is more hack writer worthless drivel that doesn't hold up to the evidence
At this point, I'm convincedND is legitimate top 12. But not legitimate top 5. Between that is more arguable...but all this will be resolved by the rest of the season. Kudos to them for it ncluding ND on a rough schedule.
I also wish they'd win out to bolster the ND SOS, but if the Irish win out, a playoff is assured.
BTW: I saw Oregon again. Making a statement by beating the BIG elite. Pretty good football team.
I also wish they'd win out to bolster the ND SOS, but if the Irish win out, a playoff is assured.
BTW: I saw Oregon again. Making a statement by beating the BIG elite. Pretty good football team.
LOL Ive been gambling over 30 years and if you dont play these angles you will lose. You either havent followed football for long or dont understand it. Sit down sport you're out of your depth.
On the plus side Louisville appears to be taking
And Boston College in 1993 was the better team right? NIU in 2024 was the better team too? Let downs happen in college football. The most likely answer is a combination yours and Telx's assertions.
Agree. Top 12 certainly. Top 5, comparing Notre Dame to Georgia, Texas, Ohio St., Oregon, etc., is a big stretch.
This wasn't one of those situations. Are you actually comparing this to NIU? Lowly NIU of the MAC conference? Maybe we were in letdown mold, A&M wasn't. They just lost to good a SEC team. There's just nothing about sorry-ass perennially underachieving never accomplished shit in their history Texas A&M losing to an already proven to be very competitive and game SCe team, on the road, that would register as a big upset. Not even an upset at all. This was a pick 'em game and SCe stomped 'em.
SCe is a good team, barely lost to Bama and LSU, and also to Ole Miss. If they could have won one of those, they'd be eyeing a playoff spot every bit as much as LSU or A&M would.
I think our D keeps us in any of those games. It’s really all about Riley. X factor with those legs. Faison will be 100% now. Maybe Cam sees the field and is what we think. The only team that looks dominant right now is Oregon. Not Ga, TX or OSU.
Tx was lucky to survive Vandy.
Vandy's got a tough stretch to finish the season, they could finish 6-6, but they're going to get a bowl game, so that's good.
I bet OU wishes they could have held on to old boy. Dillon Gabriel. Difference maker for the Ducks, as a portal QB. Money well spent.
Some of you guys really are desperate, that's the word for it. Sorry ass Texas A&M. Kind of a joke of a program to SEC fans, and CFB at large as well. The ultimate little brother program. And ND beats them one time, first game with their new coach. With sorry ass Connor Weigman throwing pass after pass into the dirt, and all of a sudden they're world beaters. If it makes you feel any better, unless they're able to shake the little brother tag at least for this season and beat Texas, they're not even going to make the playoff. And their little moment of glory in the rankings will have been short-lived.
Vandy is better then N Illinois right now but as a program the last 20 years are not close. Vandy has never won 10 games in a season ever....
They play in the SEC, what do you think NIU's record would be with the same schedule. And according to you, it's not even close, that's how much better they are. It's surreal, I like to think you guys are trolling, but I don't think so....
You don't have a clue. They have talent and a very good coach. Keep spouting your bs.
You really don't have to do this, man. ND doesn't want you to do this. They're confident enough in themselves and their record so far, that they don't want any of their fans making needlessly wild declarations of one of their opponents' awesomeness, so as to reflect better on their own awesomeness, on the strength of your own personal stubbornness.
They got their ass kicked, by a good SCe team that's been good all year. That's just how it goes. A&M got worked! And it wasn't a fluke. By a team that is their equal, for all intents and purposes. And was well more than their equal yesterday.
ND can compete with even the top 5. But it's about odd. But I just took a look at the AP ranking.
I favor Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas, Penn State, Tennessee over ND. A wash with Miami, Indiana, and BYU. As to teams behind ND, Alabama, LSU, and perhaps others I don't watch much also seem a wash.
ND lost to NIU. Big factor. As are RL, Denbrock, and MF who let it. happen.
I'm confident ND merits top 12 and a playoff right now. I'm confident ND will win out and make the playoffs. Then we see where the Irish really are...as the remaining schedule is too soft to really determine this.
I disagree with you on ped state for sure. And also probably tenn. I would favor us over them
Like I said, ND is capable of beating them, hence my saying: wash...which in part my bias for ND, as the Irish NEVER should have lost to NIU.
We will of course find out as the season runs its course. I'm certainly hoping ND keeps improving. Maybe even win the whole thing. Aspiring.
I saw the game and A&M Kamala'd the second half. For example on 4th and short Aggy double teamed the DE and an unblocked LB blew up the play. Next drive on 3rd and short they did the exact same thing. Aggy goose-egged the 2nd half but would still be a favorite on a neutral field.
So you're actually singling out an individual play where A&M didn't execute, or two plays, and probably more than that, and citing those as evidence of A&M's superiority? Wow. I didn't know you could do that. I wonder if the committee will be that thorough? Do you think maybe they'll resort to such lengths, like if they want Bama to qualify again this year, but it's hard to justify on the more superficial merits, like who won an actual game or not, so they get out the game tape and study for missed blocks and tackles and whatnot, and then be like, there you go, proof Bama's better than Indiana or whoever. They deserve to be in. Plus they would be favored, on a neutral field of course. Or maybe it's getting shut out in the 2nd half, that's gotta be a point in their favor. At least by this sort of logic. If they had just scored more, of course they would have won. Ipso facto. They didn't, but that shouldn't be held against them.
Anyway, all we gotta do is win out and we're in. Unless we're somehow deemed to be a team that would lose on a neutral field, based on closer scrutiny of the game tape. In any case, there truly is something deeply perverse about sports being decided by anything other than the results on the field and the score on the scoreboard. Otherwise you get this sort of thing. Pretty unwholesome stuff.
So you're all blasé about it. You're like a philistine. You know what a philistine is, right? You're a philistine when it comes to sports arguing. You're happy and content to be completely stupid and wrong and absurdly biased about something, in demonstrable fashion, and you're not even embarrassed. You just yawn...
