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Notre Dame's Stellar Season and Playoff Prospects Analysis
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12/7/2024
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Despite the fact that Notre Dame is now number four in the
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country with a big win last week against USC in LA and in
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eleven and one resume, Notre Dame will not get the opening
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round by but more than likely, they will host a college
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football playoff game which again, I don't know for these
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schools like if you're the Notre Dame AD or you like see
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this is why we'll never enter a conference because we get to
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play in South Bend. I like you can keep your buy. We don't
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necessarily care. Yeah. I don't I don't necessarily know how
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that works. I I said this last week. The most surprising thing
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maybe of the entire season is that Notre Dame could have lost
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last week to USC and I think they still would have been in
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the field but the fact that they did not lose is what's
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going to keep them locked into where they are. I think what's
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really incredible is if we had last year's format. Let's see
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Notre Dame would be in the playoff. A fourteen format
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Notre Dame not playing in a power conference would have
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survived and made despite losing to NIU at home. It
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speaks volumes to how dominant the Irish have been. Again, a
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lot of teams are benefiting from what feels like hey, this
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schedule spot worked here. This worked here but Notre Dame is
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not leaving any doubt in the games they've played. They won
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nine straight by thirty-five plus points per game and a lot
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of people like USC last week at seven and a half. I like them
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you know in terms of a potential step up spot for Lincoln
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Riley and what happened? It was close early but in the second
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half, the defense takes over. That secondary is as good as we
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talk about Texas. That secondary was given up 147
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passing yards to opposing offenses. Now, USC did move the
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football but I mean one of the best secondaries in all the
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college football. So, when you can run it, you have a veteran
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quarterback in your physical and the interior lines. You're
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going to be there and again, if the matchup is Notre Dame and
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Alabama like we see, it's going to be a fantastic game. And
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that secondary by the way, made sure the Irish covered that
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number with two consecutive 99-yard interception returned
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and then followed by a 100-yard pick six in Xavier Watts, one
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of the best defensive backs in the country. What's fascinating
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about Notre Dame, they were favored to reach the college
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football playoff before this season got underway. I remember
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it was minus 170 because I had the Irish in my field. Their
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win total was ten and a half. The under had the juice at
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minus 170. We expected Notre Dame to be a multiple loss team
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and still contend for a CFP spot. They lost the game.
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Nobody expected as a near four touchdown home favorite against
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Northern Illinois and then beat everybody else rather badly.
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Again, ten games against the hunt back teams this year.
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Notre Dame nine oh and one against the spread on those
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closing figures. Now, we get to some teams that people have
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argued throughout the year. Are they truly deserving based on
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their resume? But they have handled business in games. They
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were expected to win and did exactly that. Indiana in its
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first ever season. In 137 years as a football program. Won ten
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games and then they won eleven. Hammering Purdue and the old
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Oaken Bucket last week. Sixty-six to zip. Again, Lacey,
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some people might be mad that IU is in the college football
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playoff but let me state that again. The Hoosiers are in the
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college football playoff. No, deserving. I mean, when you win
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in a rivalry game, twenty-nine and a half point favorite, you
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win sixty-six to nothing especially coming off the loss
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to Ohio State and you rebound in a big way. I mean, granted,
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they did lose by margin in Columbus but that doesn't
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matter. An eleven and one football team, five and a half
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preseason win total. Kirk Cignetti, Curtis Rourke,
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they're deserving. Again, you know, you look at what happened
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last week with all the upsets to make the argument that again,
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eleven win football team, they could be seated higher as well.
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That Ohio State, you're saying? No, not Ohio State. Don't start.
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Oh, I'm just making sure. No, I just. But I'm just saying the
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way the here. That was subtle. That was good. That was nice.
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