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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
First of all, I hate Notre Dame, at least as much as anyone else on this board and quite possible more than anyone else.
Second, I am a diehard Tennessee fan, which partially explains the first part.
Those disclosures made, Walking Shadow is way underestimating most of Notre Dame's schedule. Let's see - Georgia Tech finished ranked 31/29 (AP/USA Today) and probably should have been higher. Boston College was 20 in both polls.
USC was the freaking runner up and contended for a national championship LAST YEAR.
UCLA is ranked 17 in the pre-season. As it stands, Notre Dame has to play the pre-season #27, #18, #5, #17, #26 and #1.
Air Force has been ranked in the recent past and almost beat Tennessee at Neyland last year.
Michigan State has been ranked recently.
If only playing perennial condenders is the way to make a tough schedule, then there are a lot of programs that are in real trouble.
That said, Notre Dame sucks and the SEC is the most dominant conferrence in college football. After the Big 10's bowl performances last year, it's not even debatable.
God, I need a shower for having to defend fucking Notre Dame now.
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UCLA hasn't been a major power in college football in over 20 years and they haven't been legitimate contenders for the national championship in early 40 years.
Air Force has never been considered a major football power, ranking behind Navy and Army for decades and it is only recently when Army & Navy's football programs have sucked that Air Force has been seen as a powerful team, which is a false impression.
If you noticed I put USC together with the two legitimate powers in college football on Notre Dame's schedule, Michigan and Penn State with an asterisk by Penn State.
Michigan State: I already explained that situation.
The fact that a team is ranked or that Notre Dame plays so many ranked teams is irrelevant, especially before the season has even begun.
If you're going to be truly honest about this, you don't have rankings at all for the first few weeks of the season, or you start the season with defending national champion, Florida ranked #1 and they should stay at #1 until they lose.
Re: Georgia Tech. Their record last year was 9-5. They were 1-4 against teams in the AP poll and 1-3 against teams in the USAToday poll. They had the same record as Nebraska which isn't saying much. If anything they deservede to be ranked far lower then they were.