We didn't follow through, especially with that awful Stanford loss.
Even with the USC loss, a 3 loss ND team could have landed in the top 10, but we blew it against Stanford.
On another note, I feel good for Coach Elko. Yeah, he jilted us after one year, but he did right the ship, and his successor kept things going quite nicely. That Duke team could have won each of those losses, where all of them were within a score, and three of those four losses were within three points.