has the talent to beat anyone. It's not a team that depends on a few stars.
There should be confidence with this team.
Does Alabama, Georgia, and OSU have more depth with the talent? That is demonstrable in recruiting rankings, but ND is not lacking in ability to win any game. They may need to play at a high level, force a few turnovers, and for once not take Bama''s best shot, but this team has the talent and ability to compete versus anyone.
DL: Tillery, Okwara, and Kareem have NFL futures. Maybe Hayes
LB: Coney certainly and Tranquill possibly
DB: Love, Gilman, and possibly Pride will get a look
OL: Banks, Hainsey, and Kramer could all turn out to be on NFL rosters someday
RB: Dex
WR: Boykins and Claypool will get looks, Finke?
QB: Maybe Book isn't an NFL gimme, but he is a great college player
That's a heck of a lot of talent throughout the team.
These guys can play anywhere.
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ND defense is better.- and defense wins big games. The Clemson DLine is better but ND has a DLine that isn't that far off. ND's LB's are better and ND's DB's are a lot better.
The Offenses are equal.
If ND's offensive line can get a few things fixed - I'd change it to 7/10
but I wont get sucked in
is playing like a #3 CFP team in 4 weeks. Let's stop drinking the KoolAid and actually play like we belong.
I still think Clemson and Alabama are in a different stratosphere and if we aren't on our A game we could get embarrassed.
I doubt anyone wants to see that happen again.
I still think Alabama beats us 7-8/10 and Clemson beats us 6/10.
We know we have a suspect offensive line and both these teams have Defensive Lines that could outright embarrass us.
Clemson has played NO ONE except A&M...who they beat by 2 points. They are very good at beating bad teams soundly, I'll give them that. We can absolutely beat them 6/10, in my view...if we have a good game plan. The USC game worried me (rewatched it last night): I think we can chalk that up to jetlag and travel, but the O-line got no push, we repeatedly got gashed up the middle (and that's a semi-common occurrence this season) by the run... our LBs and DBs were getting pushed around throughout the game by USC O-Line, they looked like Bama 2012! If we play like that against Clemson, we'd get crushed. I'd like to think we can play better than that though...time will tell.
and then proceeded to tell me we sucked against USC and would lose if we played like that again?
We arent that far off...I say we lose 6/10 and use say we win 6/10....
That is far from definitive on either of our parts
We are close to saying it's a toss up
However, we tend to fuck up on the big stage.....which was my original point....we shit the bed in the big games
Need to play like a #1 CFP team.
Can't argue with that....South Carolina threw for 510 yards against Clemson... Clemson has a very good run game..ND will need quick developing pass plays against Clemson... swing passes to backs.. better get pressure on Lawrence... can not play prevent Defense...Can Book improvise when the play breaks down?
beats us 9.5 out of 10.
Clemson, we can play with (and win).
I say they win 60% of the time.....their defense is better than ours...QB play is even....they have better OL, RBs and WRs....
But all of it is very close
I used to think they win 8/10...down to 6/10 now
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good solidplayers and competes with teams that are loaded with 5-star guys.