(5-3) Notre Dame at (5-3) Wake Forest

• dlazz

  Notre Lame barely beat a "bad" Wake Forest team.
  
  another year, another mediocre Irish team.
  
  LOL
• Tobias Fünke

  

  DeyDurkie5;960078 wrote:after you guys were claiming dominance, you squeak out a touchdown victory. I do give reps to the avatar/sig selection. Just be glad notre dame didn't lose, i had a great one up my sleeve.

  hah reps indeed for manning up.
  
  Notre Dame certainly didn't look pretty, and I was expecting them to look damn good. I thought Wake was a bunch of frauds, but maybe they aren't. They did beat Florida State.
  

  dlazz;960248 wrote:Notre Lame barely beat a "bad" Wake Forest team.
  
  another year, another mediocre Irish team.

  I don't think Wake Forest is a bad team, I think they're very average and played their A game. I think Notre Dame played their C+ game, and the injuries on defense (Te'o and the entire DL all out, using third-string DE's and LB's at DE to compensate) definitely showed.
  
  But, and since you don't know a lot about football I am indeed asking this seriously....you do realize college football teams are extremely capricious and you shouldn't take much out of one game, right? Look at these scores:
  
  2002: OSU vs Cinci 23-19; OSU vs NW 27-16; OSU vs Purdue 10-6, OSU vs Illinois 23-16.
  2003: OSU vs SDSU 16-13; OSU vs BGSU 24-17; OSU vs Purdue 16-13
  2004: OSU vs Marshall 24-12; OSU vs NCSt 22-14;
  2006: OSU vs Illinois 17-10
  2008: OSU vs Ohio 26-14; OSU vs Illinois 30-20
  2009: OSU vs Navy 31-27
  2010: OSU vs Illinois 24-13
  
  It happened to every team every team where there is a case in which they don't dominate an inferior opponent. And after each case there is a naysayer who doesn't know what he's talking about. In this instance, it is you.
• killer_ewok

  

  Te'o might be out until Stanford. Shit.
• Crimson streak

  

  I'm not concerned both Maryland and bc are terrible. As long as he plays against Stanford I'll be ok.
  
  On a side note if nd wins out they will likely get a bid to a bcs bowl if they can sneak into the top 14 of the bcs
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Crimson streak;960735 wrote:I'm not concerned both Maryland and bc are terrible. As long as he plays against Stanford I'll be ok.
  
  On a side note if nd wins out they will likely get a bid to a bcs bowl if they can sneak into the top 14 of the bcs

  BCS????
• karen lotz

  

  DeyDurkie5;960757 wrote:BCS????

  Not likely at all, but still possible. They are going to need to win convincingly the next two weeks and beat Stanford to have a chance.
• dlazz

  Tobias Fünke;960663 wrote:But, and since you don't know a lot about football I am indeed asking this seriously....you do realize college football teams are extremely capricious and you shouldn't take much out of one game, right?

  Stopped reading at this point because ND has been mediocre all year.
  
  15-12 victory over 4-4 Pittsburgh? LOL.
  
  Enjoy your San Diego County Credit Union bowl loss.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  dlazz;960780 wrote:Stopped reading at this point because I don't like facts.

  k gotcha
  
  btw I'll bet you that Notre Dame doesn't go to some San Diego Credit Bowl and instead goes to the Champ Sports Bowl.
• vball10set

  I know it's way too early for bowl predictions, but it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for OSU and ND to hook up in a bowl game..it'd be a HUGE payday for some lucky city :thumbup:
• karen lotz

  

  vball10set;960824 wrote:I know it's way too early for bowl predictions, but it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for OSU and ND to hook up in a bowl game..it'd be a HUGE payday for some lucky city :thumbup:

  Only chance of that happening is in a BCS game. Not going to happen.
• vball10set

  karen lotz;960829 wrote:Only chance of that happening is in a BCS game. Not going to happen.

  true, but why not another bowl? conference tie-ins?
• karen lotz

  

  vball10set;960857 wrote:true, but why not another bowl? conference tie-ins?

  
  Notre Dame will be in the Champs Sports Bowl against an ACC team. They can only take ND 1 time every 3 years and there aren't going to be any Big East teams more attractive than ND this year.
• Hamp89

  killer_ewok;960678 wrote:Te'o might be out until Stanford. ****.

  
  I'm fine with this. They should be fine the next two weeks and they'll need T'eo with two good wheels and his A-game to have a shot against Stanford.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Hamp89;961125 wrote:I'm fine with this. They should be fine the next two weeks and they'll need T'eo with two good wheels and his A-game to have a shot against Stanford.

  notre dame has no chance against stanford
• Tobias Fünke

  

  DeyDurkie5;961132 wrote:notre dame has no chance against stanford

  False.
• Tiernan

  Tobias Fünke;961215 wrote:False.

  False-er
• bradmaynard

  

  DeyDurkie5;961132 wrote:notre dame has no chance against stanford

  USC played Stanford down to the wire. It depends entirely on how ND ends up playing on that day. Turn the ball over a few times, give Luck short field, well then obviously they don't have a shot. But its not like Stanford looks like a juggernaut, stranger things have certainly happened.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  ill bet any of you guys avatar/sig that notre dame loses. straight up.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  DeyDurkie5;962668 wrote:ill bet any of you guys avatar/sig that notre dame loses. straight up.

  Well I think Stanford will win, why would I bet that?
  
  But I certainly think Notre Dame can win if they play their best game. It will be even tougher without Cave, Lewis-Moore and possibly more.