(10-29-2014 01:54 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-29-2014 12:32 PM)PirateJP Wrote:  It's funny how Notre Dame moving to the ACC has hurt their football SOS. Now instead of scheduling traditional rivals they could play as an independent they have to play 5 ACC schools that are killing their SOS.

No complaints. Just win every game (this year and next).

Why worry about committee concocted rankings that one cannot control?

Frankly, I am just sitting back and enjoying Notre Dame's resurgence into national prominence under Brian Kelly.

ND is 27-6 since the beginning of the 2012 season (19-2 when Everett Golson started).

It is all good. Next year's team will have almost everyone back, plus 3 of the players suspended this year, plus is sitting on the #7 recruiting class right now.

I like where Kelly is taking the ND program. No worries about calls or rankings here, especially at the end of October.



To directly address your post, I guess it proves that ND should never, ever join any conference for football, right?

I'm not in the habit of defending Notre Dame, but they're underranked in the CFP rankings. Their only loss was to #2 FSU on the road with a controversial play and ND controlled the entire game. I was pretty surprised that ND was ranked lower than what they were in the AP poll (#6) and thought that they would be one of the teams that could largely control its own destiny going forward (as some of the SEC teams ahead of them are guaranteed to lose because they'll be playing each other). Out of the 1 loss teams, they clearly have the "best loss" and should have received more credit for that.

Note that I don't think it has anything to do with whether ND is in a conference or not. This year, we're just seeing an excessive media echo chamber about the dominance of the SEC (and specifically the SEC West) even more than usual, which is crowding out the top.