Spare me about "Miami beat ND head to head." Home field is worth 3 points
according to Jeff Sagarin's analysis and this sounds about right. Which means on a neutral field ND and Miami theoretically would be a toss up. Therefore, you have to use other metrics. Or am I just being a Notre Dame homer?
Replies to: Spare me about "Miami beat ND head to head." Home field is worth 3 points
Miami's big gripe should be not getting in the ACC title game
The conference had plenty of time to fix the problem and did squat. Surely they could have argued that the tiebreakers in place were antiquated and needed to be adjusted for the 12 team CFP, but no
It's not just that. It was the first game of the year. There is no film on the other team.
You think ND would've let Miami's ends reek havoc if they had film on them? Even with respect to their own team, coaches think they've determined their best lineups, but they don't know until they play games. Have you heard much from the head-to-headers about the previously frequent truth that teams make their biggest leap between games 1 and 2? I haven't either.
The Committee is supposedly not to discourage teams from scheduling hard opponents at the beginning of the season, and now the claim is that this game should be decisive in determining which is the better team months later? If ND knew that, you think the coaches would have had such a cautious game plan?
This is nothing but a retrospective re-engineering of the significance of the game.
Wasn’t it the first game for both teams?
This bullshit keeps getting deeper.
We lost. BYU has lost and hopefully ‘Bama will lose and we’re in. Stop with the inane bullshit.
Yes. Now figure out why that doesn't help you.
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In 1993 ND beat FSU head-to-head. But the Irish had a worse loss, so FSU was national champs.
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That's the thing, they only hold H2H dear to heart when it hurts ND, if it helps ND not so much.
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Chris, you’re better than that
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We disagree but that’s ok…
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I can give specific examples when national media went counter to H2H when it favored ND...
but we're ALL IN on H2H when it didn't favor ND.
Can you give examples of the opposite?
I am not better than telling the truth.
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