Only team left on our schedule with a losing record is Navy, another playoff run?
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Easy on the sauce, Don. How many are ranked?
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Nope. Strength of schedule too weak. One loss to Cincinnati at home was one too many. Unfortunate
to not feast on a weak schedule...but probably just as well since the result of mostly winning close against poor to middling teams to go undefeated...would have been a playoff beat-down.
Just maybe this team can win out while maturing and developing and win a major bowl. I have my doubts...but that's the best possible outcome I see now.
Likely won’t pan out, but SOS means little right now. Lot of football left
Purdue looked like a bad win a few weeks ago. Now it’s a good one. And it may be a bad one before year end.
Take the latter. Purdue has some more losses left to go.
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11-1 in my opinion, still unlikely, but if so Id say still a slim chance of making it;
LOts of football to be played yet, and losses are coming to some top teams..
Not seeing it as realistic. Certain there are scenarios where it COULD happen. So not an...
utter impossibility.
We're just about on the same page;..could happen but unlikely
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Re: Not seeing it as realistic. Certain there are scenarios where it COULD happen. So not an...
not impossible, just very unlikely.
The best scenario to root for is SMU and Iowa St. to win out
They will lose to UVA.
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Do I hear 'wager'?
Name the bet.
Not his style, he's a hit and run guy
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UVa is just not very good...
The ACC as a whole is god-awful this season. All seem to feature poor defenses. Rounding the corner on mid-season, it looks more like a poor facsimile of the shoot-'em-up arcade that the Big12 normally represents. Right now it's setting up to be Wake versus Pitt in the championship game, which is mind-bending to think about. Two solid yet unspectacular middling teams in recent years, one of which (Wake) struggled to manage 3 wins in each of the current coach's first two seasons, which wasn't all that long ago. ND really missed a good opportunity with this schedule, which is turning out to be much softer than projected from the outset.
Neither were FSU, Toledo, or Va Tech and those all could easily have been losses. I agree with you
though that there are other more likely candidates left.
Who will?
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I had Cincinnati and UVA marked as possible losses.
Now I'm concerned with Stanford. Hopefully we win out though.
Maybe, but I think SC, NC, and/or Stanford are far more likely.
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As of today? You overlooked Stanford at 3&4. The trap game for Big Game?
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Link: https://www.onefootdown.com/2021/10/19/22734203/notre-dame-2021-football-opponents-week-7-purdue-usc-unc-virginia-tech-ga-tech-wisconsin-stanford
just noticed WSU beat them Saturday .... my bad
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A generation x street ball expression Don?
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Not going to happen
Too much has to occur among the multitude of undefeated and 1 loss teams ahead of us, and the odds of enough of that happening are slim to none.
If it does happen, I'll be happy to eat crow, and it will be the tastiest crow ever. That, plus I'll go buy a Pow 'R Ball lottery ticket.
This is not a play-off team. Maybe not a NY6 team. BK has decided that no changes are necessary....
That tells you everything you need to know. Bye week was more of a double down week for BK. Marcus and family were at my local HS game Friday night watching a recruit. What kind of magic did BK /Rees draw up for the remainder of the season? We'll see.
What change are you looking for? He has already changed the left side of the Oline, working on
better reads on defense (i.e. down & distance), playing more freshman, juggling tight ends due to injury (said they will see what Bauman can do when he comes back), working on making Coan more efficient at the beginning of games, getting Clark a lot of work to get him ready to contribute, working on how they contain USC's stud receiver. I am sorry, I don't know what you are looking for, but I assume you mean starting Coan with Buchner in relief is doing nothing (no changes to play calling, tempo, etc.)?
Change of offensive philosophy based on QB. One size does not fit all. .........................
You saying what we see now after his "changes" is the finished product for 2021? He and Rees is not managing the QB position very well. Let's start developing instead of trying to squeeze their offensive philosophy into a one size fits all mentality. This staff has performed far from perfection. That cost in the Cincy game which they are totally responsible for.
Of course I am not saying and neither is Kelly saying that 2021 is a finished product.
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He's making an awfully big assumption about the offensive line
If the line can get healthy and cohesive, I would actually agree, that no changes would be necessary. Jack Coan is a solid QB when he has at least 4 seconds to drop back and throw.
Unfortunately, there are simply too many variables involved...
Disagree. He's made a number of changes. Now all he needs is a creative OC and a WR coach.
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Didn't BK say in his presser that they are going to keep on what they were doing?.................
What changes? Maybe I missed something in his presser.
That statement can refer to anything and is probably made about one aspect of the game plans
and/or preparation. Adjustments and improvements are always sought by the coaching staff.
"Get used to it."
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That's the problem. The Irish media and many fans are used to it.
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And they've somehow gotten it in their heads that Davie/ty/Weis is the bar to measure Kelly against.
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