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Lou Holtz always said it was incredibly difficult to get a football team to play at an emotional peak 2 games in a row. That has stuck with me for 31 years.

1993
11/13/1993 #2 Notre Dame 31 #1 FSU 24 (Game of the Century)

11/20/1993 #1 Notre Dame 39 #17 BC 41

ND came out flat as a pancake, and stayed flat until 38-17 in the 4th quarter.
 
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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.
Not sure what your point is but the PC does actually weigh resume over power by a lot. When they announce the results tomorrow night expect Indiana to be higher than several teams that Vegas says are stronger than the Hoosiers.
 
Lou Holtz always said it was incredibly difficult to get a football team to play at an emotional peak 2 games in a row. That has stuck with me for 31 years.

1993
11/13/1993 #2 Notre Dame 31 #1 FSU 24 (Game of the Century)

11/20/1993 #1 Notre Dame 39 #17 BC 41

ND came out flat as a pancake, and stayed flat until 38-17 in the 4th quarter.
That's why the big deuce conferences have basically guaranteed themselves quite a few upsets. The two/three week stretches you get by grouping the top programs together (along with NIL possibly elevating the middle tier schools) haven't been seen since Holtz was playing the world's toughest schedules.
 
Not sure what your point is but the PC does actually weigh resume over power by a lot. When they announce the results tomorrow night expect Indiana to be higher than several teams that Vegas says are stronger than the Hoosiers.
I was mocking you, obviously. The way you noted how A&M played poorly, missed blocks, and it cost them, and SCe scored a TD or got a 1st down or whatever. And the subtext was that somehow A&M is still the better team, despite the beatdown. I think it was anyway, maybe you were just drunk or something, and frustrated that A&M lost. Otherwise it would be baffling why you would even mention that.

Just as obscure is your referencing how Indiana is going to be ranked higher, in the initial playoff poll, than a bunch of teams that the infallible sages in Vegas, who's actual profit/loss business is to 'know' who the better team really is, would actually favor over IU on a neutral field. Which must be an additional oblique argument than A&M is awesome, and by implication ND is too, and the loss to SCe is irrelevant. Because Vegas still loves the Aggies. Myself personally I have zero natural affinity for Texas A&M, and cannot bring myself to want them to win every game. Just not gonna do it. And that was a kick-ass game to watch, SEC football at its finest. Besides, ND is a mortal lock at 11-1 so it really doesn't matter what A&M does. Just be glad they're doing as well as they are.
 
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