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| 2. Ohio State |  |
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The schedules are set only a few years in advance, and ND could very well have scheduled tougher opponents but chose not to. You are excusing them for having no say in their schedule when they do. They still held their own destiny in their hands - by beating all the cupcakes. It's really simple. You're scrutinizing the quality of ND's losses. The rest of the world scrutinizes the quality of wins. It's the wins that matter, not the losses. I'm a neutral and I watch college ball across all conferences. SEC has better teams across the board than any conference including B1G. ND played against cupcake ACC and should've beaten them all if they were so deserving. They didn't and they can sulk all they want. Beating cupcakes deserve no respect. And rightfully so.
I mean, they are beholden to the ACC schedule given aligning during covid. No one would've known that most of those teams are quite poor nowadays.
And it is what it is. We'll agree to disagree. I think Alabama is not at all a playoff team and ND is but it's water under the bridge now. The snub was just the cherry on top and Alabama did NOTHING to jump ND as their wins were all factored in and they were behind the Irish up til Auburn.
And also big disagree on the SEC being top and bottom above the rest. They get a lot of favoritism in their rankings and it shows. Teams that are ranked high in the SEC had trouble with Arkansas and such who the Irish utterly dismantled for example. And if we talk cupcakes, ND is one of the few programs that doesn't schedule FCS. Talk about cupcakes. But I guess we can't all play "the mighty Citadel" or powerhouse Mercer.