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ND Game Next Year

ssvir said:
If/when the committee screws us we should cancel this game.

Add another home game and play UCF.

Will curb stomp them, get credit for a P4 win, and they will pack the stadium making up for the payment to get out of the ND game.

No point in playing OOC heavyweight games any more. Just follow the Indiana model and schedule layups and try to make the conference title game.

We literally got zero benefit from beating ND and UFag other than the satisfaction of beating down a rival and ND has since rubbed it in our faces even though we won.
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100% cancel it, there’s no laying down with this BS! If this game does not help us get into the playoffs this year, no need to play a top team again in the nonconference moving forward.
 
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Has anyone taken a look at their schedule next year?
  • Wisconsin (bottom feeder)
  • Rice (lol)
  • Michigan State (bottom feeder)
  • Purdue ( bottom feeder)
  • UNC (bottom feeder)
  • Navy (decent g5)
  • Miami
  • SMU (good but not great)
  • Syracuse (could be decent depending on the portal)
  • Boston College ( bottom feeder)
  • Stanford ( bottom feeder)
  • USC (good but not great)
If we were to get left out of the playoffs and cancel next years game, their toughest game would be either USC or SMU.. with 9 of their games being against teams that are either g5 or teams that will most likely be in contention to finish dead last in their conference. And if we were to cancel they'd most likely have to fill the spot with another g5 or low level p4 on such short notice making 10 such games. Absolutely disgusting...100% a playoff lock.
 
Rickd said:
Problem with your entire evaluation is that Miami lost to two unranked teams as double digit favorites. Miami's position regarding the CFP has nothing to do with ND but rather 100% with the UM coaching staff not having the team prepared to win the games vs significantly weaker opponents. Taking ND off the schedule does nothing to rectify this reality.
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It eliminates a potential loss which as an ACC team means we then have zero margin for error.
 
RVACane said:
Believe me I know and I agree. I don’t want to remove our role in not doing what we need to in order to win outright but it’s game after game, year after year. Remember last year we got a safety and they took it away? That was the most insane thing I’ve seen
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Remember last year when we got THREE safeties and they took all of them away?
 
Braduhley said:
Has anyone taken a look at their schedule next year?
  • Wisconsin (bottom feeder)
  • Rice (lol)
  • Michigan State (bottom feeder)
  • Purdue ( bottom feeder)
  • UNC (bottom feeder)
  • Navy (decent g5)
  • Miami
  • SMU (good but not great)
  • Syracuse (could be decent depending on the portal)
  • Boston College ( bottom feeder)
  • Stanford ( bottom feeder)
  • USC (good but not great)
If we were to get left out of the playoffs and cancel next years game, their toughest game would be either USC or SMU.. with 9 of their games being against teams that are either g5 or teams that will most likely be in contention to finish dead last in their conference. And if we were to cancel they'd most likely have to fill the spot with another g5 or low level p4 on such short notice making 10 such games. Absolutely disgusting...100% a playoff lock.
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Whatever screws over ND I am in favor of
 
IndayArtHauz said:
There are a lot more fun ways to prove you’re an idiot than what you’re doing right now, baby doll.

One of the teams has two top 15 losses. One of them has two losses to an unranked team at home and a now-barely top 25 team.

Answer the question I posed: if we had a win against a G5 team instead of ND right now, are we getting any at large consideration? There’s your answer on if we should play the game.
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No, but perhaps the non-conference gauntlet takes a physical/psychological toll.

For example, we went into that Louisville game flat. Two byes in three weeks, and a Friday night game when people were showing up late. The vibes were off.

If you have no choice but to pour everything into those ACC games, maybe you play with more edge.

But if running the gauntlet with a couple slip-ups in the ACC doesn't get you in the playoffs, why run the gauntlet?

The bottom line is we have to get over the perception hump so we start getting the benefit of the doubt. Clemson can lose two games and still remain in the conversation because they have built up equity.
 
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CanesAreAble said:
No, but perhaps the non-conference gauntlet takes a physical/psychological toll.

For example, we went into that Louisville game flat. Two byes in three weeks, and a Friday night game when people were showing up late. The vibes were off.

If you have no choice but to pour everything into those ACC games, maybe you play with more edge.

But if running the gauntlet with a couple slip-ups in the ACC doesn't get you in the playoffs, why run the gauntlet?

The bottom line is we have to get over the perception hump so we start getting the benefit of the doubt. Clemson can lose two games and still remain in the conversation because they have built up equity.
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Someone else previously said it but imagine if Mario and staff had all Spring/Summer/Fall camp to focus on our 2-3 main ACC opponents instead of spending all Summer game planning for ND and UF which turned out to mean NOTHING.
 
SFbayCane said:
Notre dame was 0-2 and was still ranked in the top 25.


Let that sink in.
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That’s what happens when you make the title game the year before, start the season in the top 10, and lose to two highly ranked opponents.

Michigan did the same thing in 1988 after losing to highly ranked Miami and Notre Dame.
 
JHallCanes said:
Keep hearing about SEC bias and how we gotta leave the ACC

Just curious what Miami fans think would be our record with that schedule?
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Pffffft...you kidding?...we'd walk into the CFBPO as an at large.

Let's assume we do what we do and beat ourselves week 4.
At 9-3, we'd have 3 ranked wins 3 GREAT losses.

sarcasm
 
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IrishFan said:
That’s what happens when you make the title game the year before, start the season in the top 10, and lose to two highly ranked opponents.

Michigan did the same thing in 1988 after losing to highly ranked Miami and Notre Dame.
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I know you wont be able to accept this, but that had more to do with it being Notre Dame (and Michigan under Bo Schembechler (sp?)) and less about the on-field circumstance.

ND had no business being ranked after going 0-2. Had they been dropped into the mid 30's as they should have been, the whole ND vs Miami debate would be very different now.
 
Braduhley said:
Has anyone taken a look at their schedule next year?
  • Wisconsin (bottom feeder)
  • Rice (lol)
  • Michigan State (bottom feeder)
  • Purdue ( bottom feeder)
  • UNC (bottom feeder)
  • Navy (decent g5)
  • Miami
  • SMU (good but not great)
  • Syracuse (could be decent depending on the portal)
  • Boston College ( bottom feeder)
  • Stanford ( bottom feeder)
  • USC (good but not great)
If we were to get left out of the playoffs and cancel next years game, their toughest game would be either USC or SMU.. with 9 of their games being against teams that are either g5 or teams that will most likely be in contention to finish dead last in their conference. And if we were to cancel they'd most likely have to fill the spot with another g5 or low level p4 on such short notice making 10 such games. Absolutely disgusting...100% a playoff lock.
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I thought SC told them to go **** their face and removed '26 game from the schedule?
 
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Let's see all the white knights wanting to play ND next year defend us being in the same pod, winning the H2H, and still getting left out.
 
Braduhley said:
Has anyone taken a look at their schedule next year?
  • Wisconsin (bottom feeder)
  • Rice (lol)
  • Michigan State (bottom feeder)
  • Purdue ( bottom feeder)
  • UNC (bottom feeder)
  • Navy (decent g5)
  • Miami
  • SMU (good but not great)
  • Syracuse (could be decent depending on the portal)
  • Boston College ( bottom feeder)
  • Stanford ( bottom feeder)
  • USC (good but not great)
If we were to get left out of the playoffs and cancel next years game, their toughest game would be either USC or SMU.. with 9 of their games being against teams that are either g5 or teams that will most likely be in contention to finish dead last in their conference. And if we were to cancel they'd most likely have to fill the spot with another g5 or low level p4 on such short notice making 10 such games. Absolutely disgusting...100% a playoff lock.
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Playing literal nobodies and somehow some way they’re SOR and whatever other bull**** metric they said tonight will be top 5.
 
Braduhley said:
Has anyone taken a look at their schedule next year?
  • Wisconsin (bottom feeder)
  • Rice (lol)
  • Michigan State (bottom feeder)
  • Purdue ( bottom feeder)
  • UNC (bottom feeder)
  • Navy (decent g5)
  • Miami
  • SMU (good but not great)
  • Syracuse (could be decent depending on the portal)
  • Boston College ( bottom feeder)
  • Stanford ( bottom feeder)
  • USC (good but not great)
If we were to get left out of the playoffs and cancel next years game, their toughest game would be either USC or SMU.. with 9 of their games being against teams that are either g5 or teams that will most likely be in contention to finish dead last in their conference. And if we were to cancel they'd most likely have to fill the spot with another g5 or low level p4 on such short notice making 10 such games. Absolutely disgusting...100% a playoff lock.
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i brought this up already....they are already shoed into the playoffs....which is why i would cancel it...they are hoping we stay on ....as we would be one of their good wins and in the middle or late part og the schedule...**** that...i dont care about no catholics vs convict nostalgia.
That USC game isnt locked in on schedule. **** DEMM ...are AD needs to scrap the game.
 
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