Miami is rebuilding and will take a few years to get back to the top.
I'm happy to see that some sense of sanity has come to the voters in the USAToday poll, and they have finally realized how overrated Notre Dame is and has been for the last 20 years.
Every season I hear talk about how tough Notre Dame's schedule is, but then you look at it and you say to yourself, "What the fuck??!!" For instance this year the Irish play 12 games and in those games, the Irish face these annual contenders for the national championship: Michigan State, Purdue, UCLA, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Navy, Air Force, Duke and Stanford.
The other four games are against, Michigan, Penn State* and USC.
I'm sure there is a lamer division I schedule somewhere, but come on.
Navy and MSU haven't been serious contenders for the national championship since the mid 1960's for MSU and the late 1940's for Navy.
Air Force has never been a contender.
but just watch.
Notre Dame will beat Georgia Tech and they be in the Top 5, which is disgraceful.
*While I don't think Penn State has much of a chance to be in the BCS championship game, they are good enough to be in one of the Big 4 bowl games, (Orange, Sugar, Rose, Fiesta) therefore I put them among the elite teams in the country.