Take off the Irish glasses and the stop listening to the media narrative. The committee is looking at the body of work in that given year to find the best 4 teams. ND got blown out in its LAST game ans the committee still deemed them one of the 4 best.
They aren’t discussing that Brady Quinn got blown out by LSU in 2006.
If ND goes unbeaten with quality wins (which they almost always have) they are a shoe in.