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White cornerbacks are bad, I've never heard any logic towards white safeties being detrimental

Pent up civil war anger. The only way they can "rise again" is through football.

Because they were the Preseason #1 team in America, don't you know!

I disagree with you on ND being able to compete with the other tip top SEC teams. I'm not saying it's not possible, just not probable. When our teams play in big games they get up for it. The SEC has never lost a NC game. We beat UGA, but had to stop them inside the 10 on the last drive to do so. They were pretty good. I feel like if a few teams in the SEC played for it all, they would have been very tough to beat. I would have picked them to win. I;m not trying to flame when I say this b/c I think you guys are well ahead of schedule with Kelly, but I'm not so sure you played a decent team all year outside of us. There were a few questionable games on your record. The Pitt game being the biggest.

As for the SEC stuff....I can't speak for everyone but it's mostly a cost/benefit thing to me. We play a difficult schedule and feel like we should be rewarded for it. That goes for all of us. A team with two losses form the SEC should go ahead of a team from the ACC or Big 10 or PAC 12 or whatever. That will continue to happen as long as we all keep up our history of winning. So for that to happen you want need other teams to do well because in the end it helps you. We never would have gotten to win the NC in 11' if for not being in the SEC. Oklahoma State would have gone instead and gotten blown out against LSU. I think a lot also have a never again type of attitude after an undefeated Auburn team got left out of the NC game in 04'. We know how hard it is to go through the SEC and win all those road games. We that happens, they should get a chance over some of the others with an easier path.

Also, we cheer for each other out of respect. It's like a civil war between Southern states. It's like, well, we might have lost to Louisiana, but at least the champion this year is Southern (SEC). You might not believe me when I say it and that's fine, but it's different down here. it's a 24/7 365 day a year shi* talking fest about football. We never take a break from it. It's more important to us, and we feel like the honors of being the champion belong with the people who live it on a consistent basis.

How does the Yankees winning effect the Red Sox? How are these examples anything at all alike?

Read my post above. In pro baseball you can lose 60-70 games in a row and limp into the playoffs. It doesn't matter as long as you get there. Nobody's success but your own matters. In college football, every single game you play matters. Not only that, but the type of season your opponents have matter too. If you have one loss on your resume and it's to a team that dropped the lat 6 games, you are screwed. But if you have a loss and that team is kicking ass, then you look much, much better. Can you really not understand this or are you trolling? I find it very unlikely anyone is this dumb. You are comparing pizza to mexican food.

I was just using one sport as an example, I still don't understand why you would pull for the teams (even in NC games) that you hate every other day of the year.

Yes strength of schedule is huge, honestly I could care less about what Notre Dame's opponents do every week but in the end it does matter. But you will never catch me cheering on USC, Michigan, Michigan St, or Stanford. I just let everything play out, when your team goes undefeated and plays a reasonably tough schedule then things will be right at the end.

Perfect example of this is 2011. Alabama lost to LSU, Oklahoma state lost to Iowa state. Alabama got in. I guarantee if OSU had a better loss they'd have gotten the nod. I will say that I wouldn't root for Auburn in a title game. For LSU, Tennessee, and Georgia it would depend on the opponent. All others I'd root for regardless.

I actually called an upper at my job a coattail rider after he was talking crap about the NC game. I didn't realize U of Georgia was part of the NC and I will be looking for the banner to be raised in the fall at Sanford Stadium.

This. And I'd have taken them over K state too. I'd take Alabama, LSU, A&M, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina over either Big 12 champ. I'd take most of those against FSU (Florida already did it). I'd take most of them against Stanford too. You get the point. The SEC's bottom dwellers may be pretty weak, but that top 6 is a force to be reckoned with.