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ND is # 5 in the Playoff Ranking... Oh BOY THE BOARD WILL GO CRAZY

Very much a pleasant surprise. I will say this though : I am cynical that these polls mean much right now. I think it is about publicity in order to generate excitement. I just remember last season it seemed like each subsequent poll was a clean slate. If they are going to rank and re-rank based on previous weeks then we are in great shape if we can win out. There are a lot of big games though and I can see us getting jumped if we win the next three games in nail-biting fashion.
Absolutely. Something does not sit right here. #5 is way out there. We are TCU and Baylor from last year.
 
We need to win out. We need Stanford to win out except to ND. Stanford becomes our playoff game (last impression). Clemson winning out helps too.
 
We need to win out. We need Stanford to win out except to ND. Stanford becomes our playoff game (last impression). Clemson winning out helps too.

Need Temple winning out, while ND beats Stanford. Watching Kizer fight in tough games makes me think this kid might be one of those TT types that can put a team on his back and will the team to win! But ND does need some help from other teams!
 
Very much a pleasant surprise. I will say this though : I am cynical that these polls mean much right now. I think it is about publicity in order to generate excitement. I just remember last season it seemed like each subsequent poll was a clean slate. If they are going to rank and re-rank based on previous weeks then we are in great shape if we can win out. There are a lot of big games though and I can see us getting jumped if we win the next three games in nail-biting fashion.


How is Ohio St in the top 4
 
Whoa nellie!!!!!!! Guess the committee saw an ND team that SHOULD have beat the #1 team in a monsoon on the road. Yep!!!

BEAT pitt!!!

They can't rank Clemson #1 and turn around and tell us all that Notre Dame isn't any good.
 
word case scenario I'd bama beats lsu close and both stay in front of Notre Dame. Lsu going undefeated would eliminate Alabama and Florida. Clemson at one and lsu at two gives us a few scenarios as the schedule plays out and the big 10 & 12 cannabilize each other. We need Ms OSU Baylor and tcu to lose to feel good. And beware OU.
 
word case scenario I'd bama beats lsu close and both stay in front of Notre Dame. Lsu going undefeated would eliminate Alabama and Florida. Clemson at one and lsu at two gives us a few scenarios as the schedule plays out and the big 10 & 12 cannabilize each other. We need Ms OSU Baylor and tcu to lose to feel good. And beware OU.

OU's problem is that they lost to Texas. We beat Texas 38-3.
 
They can't rank Clemson #1 and turn around and tell us all that Notre Dame isn't any good.

The significance of ND ranking is that of 1 loss teams, ND lost to a higher ranked team (Clemson #1)
Clemson has to keep winning
Stanford has to keep winning
If helps if Temple beats Memphis
and
ND needs to keep winning.

A concern is Clemson has only FSU; not a challenging sched and Clemson could get jumped.
The final four might look very different from this weeks pub result and probably more like recent years.
 
It is well deserved and shows promise, but ND issue comes after the championship games. When you don't play one you can be passed by teams behind you. Still a great start.[/QUOTE

Beach, you are correct. But that would mean we are 11-1 and that would be a Great thing For ND. Even if that were to happen we'd still be in a great bowl game vs. a great team. The final 4 or not - does not matter to me - being able to finish 11-1 with a win at Stanford would make for an outstanding season for the Irish and still a great, great bowl game.
 
Temple was highly regarded!

if it had been 9; nothing would be different. It remains as was: beat Stanford.
Now you are coming around to my way of thinking. ;)

I dismissed Temple because of the name only but after watching them, that is a excellent team. They remind me a LOT of Stanford teams. Hard nosed and great fundamentals. They are probably as good a tackling team as I've seen in a long time
 
objectively to be fair the SEC has to have a spot in playoffs. They have the overwhelmingly superior talent and the only losses are intra league! how do you penalize them because they have more talented teams?
The SEC champ must be in a playoff; if not it seems a tainted tourney to me.

Well, intraleague and American Conference teams like Memphis and Houston. Oh, the Big 12 too.
 
FSU will win out and be ranked higher. Start the fireworks!!! Nole, where are you?
Oh, I'm here. Just letting the mentally ill one play out with his crazy nonsense. He digs his own grave at this site with real ND fans. He doesn't need my help.

As you can see by his comments he's an obsessed nut case. No one respects him or anything he says.

Ignore the fool. I own him.
 
Oh, I'm here. Just letting the mentally ill one play out with his crazy nonsense. He digs his own grave at this site with real ND fans. He doesn't need my help.

As you can see by his comments he's an obsessed nut case. No one respects him or anything he says.

Ignore the fool. I own him.

I don' think cobble pot is argus. I'm guessing it's pazzu?
 
I don' think cobble pot is argus. I'm guessing it's pazzu?
I'm not accusing him of being argus. I'm sure he's not. I was responding sideways to the argus post where he is stupidly attacking FSU, Jimbo with crazy and calling me out again with his lies about the Sullivan case. He doesn't know when to quit lying.
 
I'm not accusing him of being argus. I'm sure he's not. I was responding sideways to the argus post where he is stupidly attacking FSU, Jimbo with crazy and calling me out again with his lies about the Sullivan case. He doesn't know when to quit lying.

Got it. I wish he'd just sign on as fsutaliban....
 
Got it. I wish he'd just sign on as fsutaliban....
Actually he's used FSU handles in the past attacking ND with the hopes that their fans would respond in FSU hating along with him.

Sadly he got caught and outed responding AGAIN with the wrong handle to wrong posts as he has always done. Banned again.! He did himself no favors here and what is stupid about that he didn't need to try and bait the more intelligent ND fans into hating FSU. Many already did. ;) Just not obsessively like the mentally ill one.
 
Actually he's used FSU handles in the past attacking ND with the hopes that their fans would respond in FSU hating along with him.

Sadly he got caught and outed responding AGAIN with the wrong handle to wrong posts as he has always done. Banned again.! He did himself no favors here and what is stupid about that he didn't need to try and bait the more intelligent ND fans into hating FSU. Many already did. ;) Just not obsessively like the mentally ill one.

Wow! That's classic. I think this is what happened....

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Gotta beat BC and Wake convincingly. Pitt has enough respect that people know it's gonna be a tough game. And Stanford, we'll probably underdogs in Vegas.
 
or whewn to stop running into an 8 man front...just sayin
It is like a Barnum and Bailey show. 2 Clowns.

The first attempt at a 2 pt conversion may have been early, but nobody could foresee ND getting that close after the way the 1st three quarters went. Smart move.
The 2nd two pt conversion the lane was open for Kizer to cut in, he just didn't get there fast enough.
 
objectively to be fair the SEC has to have a spot in playoffs. They have the overwhelmingly superior talent and the only losses are intra league! how do you penalize them because they have more talented teams?
The SEC champ must be in a playoff; if not it seems a tainted tourney to me.

Not so fast Pers: (Some last year's SEC bowl scores...)

TCU 42, Ole Miss 3 (Yikes)

Georgia Tech 49, Mississippi State 34 (Ouch)

Auburn 31, Wisconsin 34 (Another Whisky please)

Alabama 35, Ohio State 42 (Luke, I am your father!)

and...

LSU 28, Notre Dame 31 (Jesus made ND #1, ask Moses)
 
stu

it is the conference with a prepoderance of the talent. Over the past ten years what would that list look like?
get a better data sample.

I want the SEC as an opponent; the big league! LSU was not bad last year but certainly a tad below LSU teams of recent. It was a good step forward for ND, now lets follow it ip!
 
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