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NDfan said:
Me too! It's crazy! Look at their schedules and scores. Barely beaten mid teams all year. OK has exactly one "good" win. An overrated Bama team who outgained them by 200 yards. And we all know that Bama kinda sucks. OK gets credit for barely beating Missouri and Tennessee. Teams that haven't beaten anyone with a winning record.

And Ole Miss? Their only good win was beating that average OK team. While giving up 26 to their putrid O. It's crazy. All the mid teams beating each other and getting credit.

What not enough people are talking about is Georgia 16 GT 9. Right after Pitt boat raced GT and we know what ND and Miami both did to Pitt. Those games were all late in the year. Like c'mon people. And that is the SEC's BEST team. Crazy! Same week Louisville thrashes a KY team 41-0. Guess what the Ole Miss/KY score was. 30-23. Why isn't anyone talking about any of these?
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Yes to all of that. People just fall back to the lazy "sec is the toughest difference" without looking at the actual facts.

Do you know how many times I've heard people say well if Bama was in the ACC they'd go undefeated. Meanwhile bama played one game against an ACC team this year and got run out of the stadium by our 13th best team.
 
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NDfan said:
Guys, the debate all along shouldn't have pitted our two fan bases against one another. That is what ESPN/SEC have been trying to do. We are both more deserving than Ole Miss, OK, and Bama. Miami and ND would smoke those teams. We (my ND fans and I) have been trying to comment on all the podcasts to compare ND and Miami vs. the SEC. The SEC is the enemy, not each other.
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Yeah cool story bud, but we should be ahead of you AND bama.
 
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NDfan said:
Me too! It's crazy! Look at their schedules and scores. Barely beaten mid teams all year. OK has exactly one "good" win. An overrated Bama team who outgained them by 200 yards. And we all know that Bama kinda sucks. OK gets credit for barely beating Missouri and Tennessee. Teams that haven't beaten anyone with a winning record.

And Ole Miss? Their only good win was beating that average OK team. While giving up 26 to their putrid O. It's crazy. All the mid teams beating each other and getting credit.

What not enough people are talking about is Georgia 16 GT 9. Right after Pitt boat raced GT and we know what ND and Miami both did to Pitt. Those games were all late in the year. Like c'mon people. And that is the SEC's BEST team. Crazy! Same week Louisville thrashes a KY team 41-0. Guess what the Ole Miss/KY score was. 30-23. Why isn't anyone talking about any of these?
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You killing any more of your student videographers?

How about causing the death of a special needs student?

Your priests still being protected by your Church for molesting little boys?

F off Domer B!+C#...
 
Tony4Canes said:
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That's bull**** that the ACC CAUSED this problem. Like the ACC Championship is the ONLY issue here? That's just one of MANY issues, which I don't need to detail because we've discussed them ad nauseam on this board for the past three weeks.

But again, let's continue to deflect any negative publicity on ESPN, the CFP system, and our perfect little SEC. :snoopfacepalm:
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
We’re not swapping with ND. Yall have to really stop this. ND is in the playoff. I said it in September, they are not leaving a 10-2 ND out. It’s not happening.

Forget notre dame. We need to get to 10. It’s never going to be Miami instead of ND. It’s going to be both of us, or only them.
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C A N E said:
Bit of a bizarre soap box you’ve been on with this issue. It’s not going to stop. I welcome the growing media buzz and increasing talk about it on this board as should everyone else.

There’s nothing absolute or certain about 10-2 ND getting picked over 10-2 Miami this season by the committee’s own criteria and public admissions.

Week 13 rankings do not get evaluated the same way that end of season rankings do.

Mid season rankings take into account consistency issues as they’ve made clear with Miami and the likelihood they may play down to an opponent again and drop another game.

The calculus changes when the regular season ends and funnily enough, gauging Miami against playoff teams bodes more favorably than it does against lesser opposition.

We’ve got some dogs on this team and the national perception aligns with that viewpoint.

If Miami closes strong, we will be perceived as a potentially dangerous playoff team.

And it if comes down to Miami vs ND? We certainly have a chance to jump them in end of season rankings by the committee’s own eval criteria.

You can be as cynical about entrenched bias in favor of Notre Dame as much as you want. Does not mean it’s a settled matter and national buzz evidently reflects that sentiment.

The committee wanted more consistency from Miami and the working assumption here is Miami gives them that in the last 4 weeks of the season.

Strong resume at 10-2 where we beat Notre Dame head to head, started strong, closed strong, and had a couple of bumps in the road mid season against respectable football teams.

I will keep pointing at this sign. “Worse losses” midseason likely will not be weighted the same way during the regular season as opposed to the end of the regular season in the rankings.
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
I agree with every word you wrote. The reason I keep saying what I'm saying is because, none of this matters. I agree with you. But the committee does not, and they will not, because the team you're comparing us with is Notre Dame. This is a television show. What you wrote is an incredibly smart and well thought out post, but you laid it out like you're trying to prove your case in court. What we're dealing with isn't a courtroom, where cases are laid out logically and ruled on fairly (usually). We're dealing with corruption. We're dealing with bias. We're dealing with politics.

If you want to tell me I'm an idiot and a conspiracy theorist and once Miami gets close, the committee will push us in and push ND out, fine. I think you're insane if you believe that, but hey, let's all have hope.

If you do want to hang your hat on one thing, when I looked on Sunday, Draftkings had ND as a -4000 favorite to make the playoffs. Meaning, if you want to win $100 on ND to make the playoffs, you had to risk $4000 (LOL). This morning, it's down to -2500. So, still a comical favorite, but I think the books are at least recognizing there's a 0.000001% chance that the screaming from every rational/sane human on Earth might actually make its way into the committee room. I say no chance, but we'll see.
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I’m sure you’re elated to have gotten this one way wrong, young buck! Go Canes!
 
C A N E said:
I’m sure you’re elated to have gotten this one way wrong, young buck! Go Canes!
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Never, ever thought they’d do it. ND had a really ****** run out. The only possible way they weren’t gonna make is if Miami ever got to 1 spot below them. And that’s exactly what happened. If any other team in America was 11, they’d have stayed at 10. I can’t lie, it’s nice not having bias and bull**** shoved down my throat. Gives me a little faith in humanity. But yes, very wrong, and am still kind of in disbelief. I did say for the past couple weeks though that you simply cannot have ND 10 and Miami 11. That can’t be a thing.
 
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