But anyway here are all my thoughts on this shit.
All this yapping I see about we beat this team by more points than yours because we scored a late TD is just trash, it’s actually embarrassing for both universities. Everything was comparable there and if you really wanna nitpick on the true blowouts (which shouldn’t matter after a certain level of dominance is reached anyway), the Irish would get the slight nod based on the game being over at halftime vs. Standford and Cuse (but again who cares about Stanford and Cuse!)
What I would like to see our media and all media really focus on (and they aren’t) is WHY WHY WHY H2H HAS TO MEAN MORE in a game involving ND, because they are not in a conference and don’t have to deal with a confernce championship game to win or better yet avoid losing and all the positioning and tiebreakers that go into it. A game against a fellow playoff contender that actually has to play in a conference has to be looked at as an elimination game for ND…More than with the average conference team. That and the fact the resumes are so close…If the resumes are this close then yes H2H has to weigh heavily, and especially with a team that doesn’t have to worry about conference.
All in all I (like most who analyze or handicap CFB) have ND as a slightly better team than Miami (some have it a little wider), but UM really represented well at Pitt, that was beautiful and much needed and it was a game I certainly was worried about, I was so close to betting Pitt, (I would have bet under too, so it would have been a chop), glad I didn’t and for UM to go to cold weather and do that was really a big performance. And that brings me to my second point, which I don’t believe is being talked about enough and kinda ties in with the first point about ND not being in a conference…I know Narduzzi was exaggerating, and those kids would have loved to beat ND. But again it came out of the man’s mouth “I don’t care if we lose by 100 in to Notre dame they aren’t an SEC team”…. That’s a definite advantage for ND as they get to face teams every year (Pitt no different) who are in the thick of conference races. Everything was on the line for Pitt when they played UM, win and they were in, a loss to ND changed nothing for them, as they had multiple losses already. And I barely hear it mentioned other than random social media Hail Marys like from myself. That should be on every show, because although the statement is slightly exaggerated it has merit.
Another thing I don’t think is being mentioned enough, and I know I’ve cried about it on here is the officiating in that SMU loss…the last two minutes of regulation were highway robbery. The phantom hold and picked up defensive pi flag were egregious, absolute horeshit. And not many people know about it because it wasn’t SEC game…If that that was a Bama vs. Texas game officials would have been suspended and it would be talked about on every single one of these playoff bracket shows.
If I get a minute I’ll post a thoughts on a couple teams similar to us and this whole nonsense of weekly updates and pounding it into people’s heads that this team or that team is safe, and of course on CMC and how at the end of the day, you can’t lose multiple games a year in this conference.
FWIW here is my current P.r. for teams in the CFB playoff picture and top 15…Again this isn’t resume, this is merely a power rating for handicapping, because due to the h2h, I would have UM over ND. IF there was h2h there, I would give the nod to ND if they were the last two in. This doesn’t take into account any injuries that are considered wk 2 wk or happened just last year.
(zero is lowest team can START season, I’ve had a couple teams end a season on the other side of zero)
OSU 5.5
Indy 9
Oregon 10
Georgia 11.5
ND 12
TT 13.5
Tamu 14
Bama 14.5
Miami 15
Ole Miss 15.5
Tex 17
Vandy 17.5
Oklahoma 17.5
Utah 19 (only including them for reference)
USC 19.5 (only including them for reference)
BYU 20 (Not knocking BYU’s resume, and I actually love this team)
VA 27.5
JMU 29
Tulane 30
Duke 30.5
North Texas 32.5 (there are a lot of models much higher than me on UNT)
