ND would need to beat badly the teams they should and just beat USC and Stanford anyway they can. There are a ton of undefeated teams still left and a ton with one loss, so losing to Clemson was not a kill shot but it hurts. This is why beating GT 30-7 instead of 30-22 was so important. Style points. Who the heck knows if the selection folk even look at the details of the game. Maybe just the score. If so, they will not be aware of the beat down the Irish gave GT and how close the Clemson game was, how far they came back until the very end, and it was turnovers that lost the cotton pickin' thing, not necessarily Clemson, though Clemson fans have spent a lot of time here trying to convince everyone differently.