Your initial post on this thread indicated that ND would jump all of the losers of those games. There's no reason to believe that will be the case.
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Your initial post on this thread indicated that ND would jump all of the losers of those games. There's no reason to believe that will be the case.
how does lsu get to 12-1 is the more important question. if they lose in the regular season they won't get to 13 games. if they lose the sec championship game they'll certainly drop.
let me ask you this. if nd dropped in the rankings when they lost why wouldn't other teams ?if nd and Stanford both win out until they meet they'll both likely be ranked in the top 6. the winner has a great chance at the playoff.
Iowa will get beat in Big Ten Championship game, if not before.
Oklahoma State still plays Baylor, TCU and Oklahoma. They'll
lose at least two and probably all three of those.
My assumption is that they would lose a regular season game, but still possibly win a tiebreaker for the division and go on and win the conference championship. You can substitute a 12-1 Alabama (or Florida) with the same reasoning.
I don't think you can make that determination without knowing the rest of the college football landscape.
In this scenario ND's one loss would be to an defeated Clemson ranked in the top 3. The SEC champ's one loss would be to a lesser ranked team with at least one loss. No reason the Irish would not be picked ahead of the SEC champ.
Yes there would be. It's the SEC.
Analysis goes deeper than "who had the better loss?".
It's a much better argument than yours. You're looking at who has the "better loss". That's one part of the equation, but not the whole equation.
If you think a 12-1 SEC champion is being beaten out for the playoff by a 11-1 ND, you're an idiot.
I think for the SEC to get left out, it needs to be Ole Miss running the table (they control their own destiny) or a 2-loss East team pulling the upset in the SECCG. I don't see a scenario where 1-loss ND trumps 1-loss SEC champ. Our loss might be better, but they likely have more quality wins.
Exactly. A two-loss SEC team may fall behind Notre Dame, but not a one-loss SEC team. Fair or unfair, the perception of the SEC is that it's the strongest conference in the country. I can't imagine a realistic scenario where a Notre Dame team that has one fewer win than a one-loss SEC champion would be elevated over the SEC champion.
The problem is, and always will be, conference teams play 13 games, the last against a top conference opponent in the championship game. that makes it extremely hard for a one loss ND team to make it. Possible but very hard.
Nothing I've said in this thread is negative about Notre Dame. It's realistic.
I'm very much a Notre Dame fan. I just don't consider myself a fanboy as much as some of the people here who only see things in blue, green and gold.
Beating a PAC 12 conference champion Stanford would knock the PAC 12 out, but not if Utah wins out.
Imagine fans seeing the positives in the team they root for -- what a novel concept .
Nothing wrong about that at all. There are a significant number of people, though, who only see the positives in the team they root for. I don't consider that to be a particularly intelligent way to support a team.
disagree. highly doubt Utah can knock out a one loss nd. they loss to a team nd defeated.
