Ask the average fan if they are cool with 9-3, they'd probably say yes.
But in the scenario laid out by this guy, Notre Dame is 8-1 going to Miami, who he assumes is a good team, and Notre Dame is probably inside the top 10.
A loss to Miami probably drops them a few spots, lets call it 14th. Then they beat Navy, and then lose to Stanford AGAIN, who he assumes is a good team. Now they've gone 1-2 in the last three, with two losses at night, on the road, in probable marquee games. Now they are somewhere near 20th.
What are fans saying at that point? How would we be feeling? All the talk about the strength program and Notre Dame would have fallen apart again in November. And they'd be a bowl game loss away from going 9-4, the same as they were in 2013 with Tommy Rees and they'd be spinning their wheels round and round.
Then what?