Yes sometime back in the mid 200s or so. The last competent AD we had said to ND "play us in Piscataway or no deal."
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Sure. All bowl teams, two played for their P5 conference championships, and NW was #22 in the final regular season poll. Combined regular season record of 30-21. All solid teams.
No matter how you look at it, ND played a good schedule this year and went undefeated. They deserved to be in. I dislike them more than any other team in college sports, but it is what it is.
The NY Times ran an article yesterday that basically sa
It is true. They wanted our home games at the Meadowlands with ND getting half the tickets. We said no and they booked a series with UConn.
None were elite. Good may be stretching. It. I’d call it mediocre.
Did anyone in the country not have a mediocre schedule/season?
ND - mediocre
Oklahoma - Big 12 plays no defense
Clemson - ACC is mediocre
Ohio State - best win was Michigan (who also played ND) who wasnt elite, blown out by Purdue
UCF - not P5
Georgia - 2 losses and didnt win conference
Should have just given Alabama the championship and skipped the playoffs?
You criticize Notre Dame’s schedule but no big 10 teams schedule anyone out of conference. Penn State has an play a top 10 team Out of conference since Lord knows when.
Yet ND played Michigan this fall. And OSU played Oklahoma and RU played Washington in 2017. I'm not going to check back each team in each year, but I'll say don't judge the league by Penn State.
Signsture wins:
Ohio State - #7 Michigan, #22 Northwestern(neutral), @#12 PSU
ND - #7 Michigan, @ #22 Northwestern, #20 Syracuse (despite your forthcoming response that Syracuse sucks with a gimmick offense - they are still ranked #20)
So the difference is #12 PSU and #20 Syracuse.
Not that big a difference.
Signature losses
OSU - unranked Purdue by 29
ND - none (hypothetically to #2 Clemson in the ACC champipnship game?)
Not quite seeing how OSU isn't mediocre as well.
None were elite. Didn't say they were. All clearly good teams. If you're ranked in the top 25, how can you not be good?
This is the reason we need an 8 game playoff: The big 5 conference champions, the best non big 5 top 25 team and two at large bids. The playoffs would be exciting to watch, and I’m sure it would include some upset excitement like the b-ball ncaa tournament! That would be fun to watch instead of the same old same old!
I'd probably put Wake lower than Pitt. Pitt had the 4th toughest schedule in the nation according to Sagarin, and they beat some pretty good teams. I'd call them more erratic than mediocre. They beat Syracuse and five other bowl teams. Just had an awfully tough schedule.
Too bad indeed, Pitt/Northwestern would have won the games necessary to advance, and whoever they would have upset in the conference championship game did not.