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[Judge Fudge]

Lets watch that ranking climb batches!!!

 

[poewelch84]

I'm not sure they will climb a lot of this win but beating U$C would be a different story.

 

[bksballer89]

I'm not sure they will climb a lot of this win but beating U$C would be a different story.

Well Florida went down and so did Louisville. Should be top 20

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Michigan State up 14-3 on Michigan

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Maybe we can get Stanford over Utah and Oregon over Washington State

 

[Judge Fudge]

Top 20 would be nice......

Top 15 would be freaking sweet

 

[jjc2009]

Today was a good day. ND wins big in spite of their play calling. Michigan chokes at home.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Today was a good day. ND wins big in spite of their play calling. Michigan chokes at home.

Permission to Commence nut swinging sir?

 

[jjc2009]

Permission to Commence nut swinging sir?

Swing away!

 

[Judge Fudge]

 

[NDIrishGuy]

Well, despite ND going to Michigan State and crushing them and only suffering a 1 pt loss to a good Georgia team, I am betting Michigan still ends up ahead of ND in the polls.

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Well, despite ND going to Michigan State and crushing them and only suffering a 1 pt loss to a good Georgia team, I am betting Michigan still ends up ahead of ND in the polls.

In the AP, yeah. But maybe not in the playoff polls that are released in a few weeks.

 

[ericd7633]

Don't look now, but the back half of the schedule sets up to be very difficult.

USC, NC State, Miami and Stanford should all be ranked today IMO. Navy has an outside chance and Wake is a respectable 4-2. While difficult, comes a great opportunity. Not saying we'll win out, but if we did, by chance, we might be a CFP team. Every game is extremely winnable. ESPN's FPI(take it for what it's worth) has ND winning out at home and basically says the two road games are toss ups.

 

[bksballer89]

Don't look now, but the back half of the schedule sets up to be very difficult.

USC, NC State, Miami and Stanford should all be ranked today IMO. Navy has an outside chance and Wake is a respectable 4-2. While difficult, comes a great opportunity. Not saying we'll win out, but if we did, by chance, we might be a CFP team. Every game is extremely winnable. ESPN's FPI(take it for what it's worth) has ND winning out at home and basically says the two road games are toss ups.

My guess is we end up 9-3 which I'll be fine with.

 

[ericd7633]

My guess is we end up 9-3 which I'll be fine with.

That would be my guess as well. That Michigan State wins looks pretty impressive now. Can't believe we're 1 point away from being a top 5 team. Oh well, let's just take care of SC and NC State the next 2.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Coaches pool has us at #19

 

[jjc2009]

Don't look now, but the back half of the schedule sets up to be very difficult.

USC, NC State, Miami and Stanford should all be ranked today IMO. Navy has an outside chance and Wake is a respectable 4-2. While difficult, comes a great opportunity. Not saying we'll win out, but if we did, by chance, we might be a CFP team. Every game is extremely winnable. ESPN's FPI(take it for what it's worth) has ND winning out at home and basically says the two road games are toss ups.

The next three games will be telling.

I think all three, taken alone are winnable games and none of them are gimmies. But they will have to play even better than the best they have looked to win all three.

Hopefully we are rested healthy and a good game plan in place for USC. Then we get a good NC St. team looking to make a statement and will have a bye before us.

Can't sleep on Wake who fought hard against Clemson. They'll know Elko's tendencies too.

Then it's off to Miami who will not really be challenged until they play us

Navy is now ranked. They always play hard against us and we never play our best on senior day.

If we somehow run the table against this schedule which will have potentially 5-6 ranked opponents we absolutely should be in the playoff discussion. Whether we're ready for that stage is another matter.

 

[bksballer89]

16 in ap poll

 

[Irish7478]

The nice thing is that now Book has some experience. If something happens to Wimbush I won't have to worry about someone who has only played in mop up time.

 

[podsox]

I like book a lot more than winbush.