ND still plays Stanford. ND beating Stanford would have knocked them out of contention anyway. The only other team alive is (was) Utah, and now they have been eliminated. Utah probably wasn't going to be in contention with ND anyway because they got dominated by USC while ND won by 10 points.
It would have been better for Stanford to win that game.
If SC win the PAC 12 Championship That would be a nice notch to have beaten the PAC 12 champ in the voters eyes???????maybe?