Notre Dame's Playoff Chances and Conference Dynamics

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00:00Notre Dame. People used to cry all the time. They don't play in a conference. They shouldn't

00:08be in. They have an advantage. They don't play a conference championship game. This

00:11is when there was four teams, Bill. Now that there's 12, I'm starting to see it even more.

00:16I'm a Notre Dame fan. I usually defend by saying Notre Dame usually schedules at least

00:23three or four of their games pretty good, just like everyone else. It's not their fault

00:27this year that Florida State and USC, I'll even throw Louisville in there, aren't very

00:33good this year. I don't think it's fair to Notre Dame to do that to them. They thought

00:37those were going to be marquee games for them. Yeah. Do you think they planned on Florida

00:41State being one in eight or one in nine? I don't think so. They schedule USC. They schedule

00:46across all the conferences. They've taken advantage of that ACC arrangement. Quite frankly,

00:51the last month or so, they've played well. They're really good on the defensive side

00:56of the ball. You can't throw on them. You have to earn every yard. I look at them as

01:02one of these top 10 defensive teams. If you look across most playoff projections, you're

01:07going to find eight of the top 10 defenses in college football there from a scoring standpoint.

01:11I think as we get into the college football playoff, some of these games might be fist

01:16fights, like 24-20, 24-17 type games. In that setting, Notre Dame could win a game or two

01:23in the playoff. I'm going to defend them here as long as they don't lose to Army,

01:27which is going to be an interesting game when you're going up nation's leading rush offense

01:31and a tough defense for the Black Knights. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Four

01:36horsemen memories, look that up. I'd like the Irish to win this week and finish 11-1

01:42and possibly, depending on how it shakes out, get a home game in the first round.

01:48Yeah, that game at Yankee Stadium, too, against Army coming up here on Saturday night. That

01:53should be very interesting. I got about a minute left, Bill. BYU loses this week. Colorado's

01:59on a big roll right now. Colorado, BYU, or does Arizona State, who people are leaving

02:04out, they're right in the mix here with BYU this week.

02:08I like the Sun Devils this weekend. I do. I think they win at home. BYU hasn't been

02:13there since 1997. Sam Levitz, a hot quarterback, three touchdowns each of the last three

02:17weeks. They can run the football. Pretty complete domination at Kansas State over the weekend

02:22as well. Man, if I'd have told you last year, Arizona State, Colorado, a pair of 3-9 teams

02:28are going to be in the Big 12 championship game, how hard would you have laughed me off

02:32this show? I think it's getting closer to becoming a reality.