Nd may be the victem of a strong schedule

[beachcardinal]

The schedule should have been one of the toughest in the country. But with SC and Texas being flops and other teams losing late it appears that ND may be hurt,through no fault of it own, because to the failures of other teams. A weird result if it happens.

 

[Duo]

Iowa is 12 & 0 and may or may not not get in. One thing for sure though..........the Conference Champion will get in! And that's how the system Works.

 

[nwregionite]

ironically playing Mich or Mich state this year (and winning) would have the Irish probably as secure in the playoff as Alabama is at the moment.

Still, if ND wins convincingly tomarrow....they are pretty likely to get in.

 

[irishalice]

Iowa is 12 & 0 and may or may not not get in. One thing for sure though..........the Conference Champion will get in! And that's how the system Works.

How many times are you going to bray about conference championships? We get it, you think only conference champions should get to play in the finals.

 

[nook91]

beach

good luck against ucla

fight on!

 

[Fifthhorseman25]

This committee thing is going to make it interesting going forward. Do you do like Iowa and when you can see 4-5 years down the road and you know you are not going to be playing the "heavy weights" of the conference do you go total cup cake? Or do you go different and try to throw in a "heavy weight" non conference opponent just for the SOS? And really how are you supposed to know how a team is going to be playing 4-5 years down the road when the schedules are made?

Interesting times ahead for college football.

 

[beachcardinal]

beach

good luck against ucla

fight on!

Thanks we will need luck this year.

 

[hoopsstar12]

The mythical national championship is still mythical. Don't obsess. Playing hard against Stanford and hopefully winning is all we can control.

 

[justacollegefan]

The schedule should have been one of the toughest in the country. But with SC and Texas being flops and other teams losing late it appears that ND may be hurt,through no fault of it own, because to the failures of other teams. A weird result if it happens.

I completely agree with you but how was Ohio St. even ranked in the top 4 and still number 8 with their schedule? I just wrote about this because the excuses were mainly the fact they won last season so they gave them a benefit but that makes no sense. We got rid of the BCS because of this BS and now the committee is doing the same thing. I will write it down again, their strength of schedule coming into this weekend was 61st, their best win was against an 8-4 Northern Illinois MAC team 20-13 at home, only 3 out of 11 teams they played coming into this weekend had winning records and they lost to 1 of them, and zero wins against top 30 opponent. I just can't overlook this because it shows the system is completely rigged and this committee is clearly not able to do their jobs without bias. We need an 8-16 team playoff, preferably 16, so teams outside this stupid "power 5" crap can have a shot.

 

[onlyonenow]

8 teams is a joke. 6 with the top 2 getting bye's would be the best solution

 

[eftzoons]

I strongly suspect a sub rosa bias against ND should things be at all close, committee voters using the lack-of-conmference argument/rationale as a reason for not selecting ND. I believe ND and USC are in this way pretty much in the same boat insofar as this national bias biz is concerned simply because both have been almost too good for too long a time.

The corrupt and Rube Goldberg-like BCS system was dominated IMO by South Eastern Conference honks (and their rigged computers) whom hated USC for some reason or other, perhaps for embarrassing them by going undefeated against their precious conference over Pete Carroll's entire career at USC. This IMO is why USC had to settle for 7 or 8 straight Rose Bowl blowouts against Big Ten champions-- the BCS = systemic dislike for "outsider" powers and using the annual -- and exasperating -- one game upset by some infernal Pac Ten doormat or other, usually Stanford or Oregon State, voting happily against Troy, which at bottom only had itself to blame for not always going undefeated in a corrupt world full of good ole boys eager to let their backwater influence win the day.

Well, one year these fellows were FORCED to include ND in the top two simply because ND was an obvious and conspicuously number one ranked, undefeated seed, but otherwise I sort of think they'd have pulled the same skullduggery against ND. Long winning traditions foster longtime jealousies/hatreds from around the nation. Unfortunate but true. But this is also in a sense a compliment of sorts. That is precisely why I foresee ND's getting blackballed from the top four by the Committee this year even if they should annihilate Stanford. There are always dubious rationales for these resentful creepizoids to prop up. Having said that I feel compelled to also confess that I am a card carrying pathological conspiracy theorist. But that doesn't in and of itself make my theory wrong. I doubt that I am wrong. ND must live with its longstanding surfeit of glorious and astonishing successes over the decades. There is no free lunch in that sense. There is always a price to pay for too much traditional success.

 

[Duo]

How many times are you going to bray about conference championships? We get it, you think only conference champions should get to play in the finals.

Hi Alice,

Nice to hear from you, hope all is well.

Re: Conference Champions. Well...........yeah, you get it even while others struggle. I know it doesn't seem fair to an independent that the committee is stacked with Conference Members but when you think about it they wouldn't have it any other way. And I know.........you understand that.

And to answer your question, if the Conferences had their way (the vast majority of CFB) then yes, only Conference Champions would play in the finals. Again, that's just how the system works..............for now and until some other system is devised. Right now it doesn't look like the system will be changing any time soon. It will most likely run it's course in the same manner as the BCS.

BTW Alice,

I am still following your advice by totally ignoring the resident lunatic and all his different handles. And I appreciate all of your courteous comments and input. Best 'O Luck in the games ahead.

 

[onlyonenow]

the whole conference bias BS needs to be continually challenged by everyone possible. The Big 10 is arguably better then the SEC this year if you take the top 4 teams or so. So what?

we need a way to make this political- find a way to make belonging to a conference some kind of racial or ethnical discrimination.
If we could do that then the conference POS's would run for cover and you would never hear from them again

 

[eftzoons]

Challenged by EVERYONE? A very tall order considering that the SEC good ole boys are more united in their infernal interests than the whole rest of the college FB can ever dream of being. It is not fair, of course, but those self obsessed suckers down there don't play by the same rules as the rest of us. They pull every rotten, low down back room trick in the book to guarantee they get better treatment by just about all rating systems…from the BCS to now. And better bowl games. etc etc .

 

[perseverare]

51-0 ND. oughtta doit!

 

[eftzoons]

Do I detect a sardonic tone?

 

[irishalice]

Hi Alice,

Nice to hear from you, hope all is well.

Re: Conference Champions. Well...........yeah, you get it even while others struggle. I know it doesn't seem fair to an independent that the committee is stacked with Conference Members but when you think about it they wouldn't have it any other way. And I know.........you understand that.

And to answer your question, if the Conferences had their way (the vast majority of CFB) then yes, only Conference Champions would play in the finals. Again, that's just how the system works..............for now and until some other system is devised. Right now it doesn't look like the system will be changing any time soon. It will most likely run it's course in the same manner as the BCS.

BTW Alice,

I am still following your advice by totally ignoring the resident lunatic and all his different handles. And I appreciate all of your courteous comments and input. Best 'O Luck in the games ahead.

Geesh, you didn't need to write a book, I got your feelings about conference championships from the other threads where post about it, no matter the topic.

I'm not a fan of conference championship games, or bloated conferences, we shall see if winds of change blow softly over the college landscape, it's just a matter of time.

I'm for a cupcake rule, play more than one, the others count as scrimmages not wins.