The Blue Board

I sort of agree. I think you need a really elite D to stop Oregon, but I was stunned yesterday to see how easily USC moved the ball and scored on them in return. If Oregon has an off day on offense or even a bad half against a good offensive team, they easily could lose in a shootout. And I said at the beginning of the season that Alabama will shut them down if they meet in the BCSCG and I continue to believe that.

Prediction ND jumps over K State in the BC$ ranking$ come bowl $election.

I would def go with Bama as well. No question.

Kelly reminds me a lot of Tom Coughlin as a coach. Very safe with the ball, plays for field position, solid special teams and just avoid mistakes. When Golson or Reese throws an interception they end up on the bench. Same with Coughlin, early on this year but their RB (I forget his name) fumbled the ball and the guy rode the pine the entire game after that.
It's all about paying attention to details on these teams as well. Whenever ND gets an interception you see everyone on that D turn on a dime and just start blocking...sounds really basic and a no brainer, but they do so many intangible things like that so well.

Question for the coaches, I saw an article in the Freep this weekend where medical experts/researchers are arguing that kids shouldn't play tackle football until after age 14 to avoid concussions/brain injuries.

What are your thoughts?

Idk. ND has been getting a boost in the computers up until now, but they are just hitting the crap part of their schedule (Pitt, BC and Wake) and that is going to hurt their computer score. And both Oregon and KState already are ahead of them in the human polls. If all three of Oregon, KState and ND finish undefeated, I see at least one of KState or Oregon coming in ahead of ND. But TBH I will be shocked if we end up with four undefeated teams. It almost always looks like this in early November right before a couple of totally unexpected upsets happen. This is not over yet. Even Alabama is not a lock for the BCSCG based on what I saw Saturday.

It's still not a given that they beat USC and even then they need two of K State, Oregon, and Alabama to lose and they are much better teams than Notre Dame.

Notre Dame has gotten the benefit of a lot of things such as Denard throwing it to the other team which is a mistake he has not repeated since then despite going up against other stiff defenses, Pitt missing a sure field goal, a bad call against Stanford.

Getting 6 INTs isn't luck.

Delany always sets up the schedule to benefit MSU.

When you're a traditional power like MSU, you end up some love from Delaney. He wants MSU to win the B1G every year, its whats best for the conference .

No they won't.

It's a mistake that wouldn't be repated if we were to play them again in the Rose Bowl.

Maybe you should switch over to basketball early this year. The hate is creeping back.