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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]weak schedule.  navy, bc, stanford, purdue -if they want to be in the playoff and not be in a conference they have to play the top teams. [/quote]

Or at least more good teams.

Also they need to actually win the games against the good teams they play. They didn't have a single impressive win this season. They ran up the score against extremely weak teams and lost to the two comparable teams they played. That's it.

This is one of the reasons they should have played a bowl game against BYU, simply to prove that they could beat a decent team. Had they played BYU and won, this would have at least demonstrated that their strong record wasn't entirely due to a weak schedule. As it stands, the best argument you can make for the quality of ND's team this year is that they *almost* beat Texas A&M. And this is a problem entirely of their own making.

Sometimes other teams have cushier schedules but it's not their own creation -- they play in conferences with weaker opponents and get lucky with some scheduling. ND's weak schedule, every single year, is something they dictate for themselves. And never more so this year when they chose not to play BYU after also losing games to Texas A&M and Miami. I guess the team didn't feel it had anything to prove? Sounds like a team that isn't going to the playoffs.

ND, for once, appropriately rated.[/quote]

They beat two teams that finished in the top 25 and a third that was ranked when they played. Their only two losses were to teams that made the CFP.

I’m not even an ND booster but this forum is filled with morons.[/quote]

And Miami and Alabama both *beat* teams that made the CFP.

If you can't win against a single top rated team, you are not competitive with that set. Miami and Alabama each had tough losses, but they proved they could beat top teams.

Notre Dame proved they could beat lesser teams. Great. That means Notre Dame got exactly what they deserved -- they are the best team of all the teams that did not make the CFP. Alabama and Miami are the worst teams of all the teams that made the CFP. Makes perfect sense to most of us.[/quote]

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