I truly believe the committee waited until the last possible moment to see how Miami looked against Pitt before moving us ahead of Notre Dame. They needed to see the full body of work to be able to compare each team side by side. Now that we have passed their "eye test" and "consistency test", they are out of excuses.
They probably wanted to see Miami lose or win ugly so they wouldn't have to make a tough decision. Now they have to do what they didn't want to do. So if you ask me, we are in and it's Notre Dame that needs the help to get in (they need the upsets that we were hoping for)