They might be # 1. That would be the way ND could pull it off with a loss. Otherwise running the table, with UM and Stanford being highly ranked. ND would have a difficult time getting in the way OU did this year — a loss at neutral site to a team that finishes with four losses — without the benefit of a championship game. And ND won’t be in the discussion like OSU was with a humiliation loss at the hands of a Purdue type team.