Does this mean that Notre Dame will stop scheduling games with all the military academies? Who else can they schedule to pad their number of victories every year?
Really? they’ve played the hardest shcedule of any one loss team…
I don’t see Ty Willingham doing any better with this group and this schedule. You can’t play eight bowl teams in a rebuilding year and expect much, but one win at this point is unthinkable. And no one could have seen Clausen awful play coming- he was wanted by pretty much everybody. Didn’t he take a limo to signing day? what an ass.
One player does not a team make. Notre Dame was unable to stop a simple triple-option running attack. That’s like so antiquated it shouldn’t have gotten going at all against them. The defense for the Irish was awful.
Defense on both sides of the ball was highly porous. I mean, do the math: complete game into triple overtime, 0 interceptions for either side, total of 2 punts. 3rd-down completion was about 50%, 4th-down completion was 100% for Navy, 75% for Notre Dame.
These teams didn’t stop anybody, defensively. They stopped themselves.
Edit: That doesn’t stop me from laughing my butt off. Notre Dame, 1-8. I just wish the big ND fan still worked in our office. He’d be livid. 
If your talking about the 2 point conversion that Navy made in the 3rd overtime, that actually wasn’t ballsy. College overtime rules require teams to try for the 2 point converstion starting with the 3rd overtime.
It was a great play though.
BTW, YouTube has video of the Naval Academy superintendent crowd surfing after the win.
Ever see a three-star admiral crowd surf?
Presumably, talking about the 2-point conversion to make Navy’s score 28 in regular time. Which pretty much was required since they had doinked the EP the touchdown before… :eek:
Well, let’s see… the #1 team in America had Kent State, Akron and Youngstown State. Those would be pretty good replacements for the service academies.
ND losing is a great thing. It let’s Michigan get a bit more seperation in the all-time wins, and all-time winning percentage.
Let’s keep wise for the full contract.
But OSU won the fabled Ohio state championship! :rolleyes:
My thoughts exactly. And while 1-8 is embarrassing, getting rid of a coach you just honored with a 10-year extension might be even more embarrassing. And you make a good point about the schedule also; a writer for SI made a similar point in a story a few months ago. I doubt that part of the equation is going to get any better, either.
I agree that LSU shouldn’t be #3. They should be #2, and that’s where they are.
Hey, the Buckeyes still have to beat D3 perennial champion Mount Union College from Alliance OH in order to claim the all Ohio title.
As for my beloved Irish, they’ll just have to lick their wounds and come back stronger. What annoyed me about the Navy game was Weis’ decision to play for the tie at the end of the 4th quarter. There was no reason at all to play for the tie, given how they hadn’t stopped Navy all day, (and indeed, haven’t stopped anybody other than UCLA and their 5th string walkon QB for over a year). Be aggressive. Play for the win! And while you’re at it, go with the flow and put in the spread offense.
I do want to throw in the fact that not stopping Navy’s antiquated offense is no real disgrace, as Navy was averaging 33+ ppg against D1 teams coming into the game against the Irish.
I’m no fan of theirs or their schedule either - but is this a schedule they repeat year after year?
OSU tends to play 3 puffballs and 1 “tough” non-conference games each year. This is not unusual…not many teams regularly schedule more than one non-conference game against a team that’s at or above the school’s general level of competitive-ness.
This year, their “tough” opponent was Washington. Washington is in a down period and haven’t been a national power in recent years, hence the complaints about the schedule and that they “haven’t beaten anyone”. But in 2005 & 2006, they played a home/away series with Texas and in 2008 & 2009, they’ll play USC home and away, so they don’t shy away from challenging themselves.
Don’t worry, Michigan will keep the losses to FCS (aka D-I AA) schools at home record too.
Did anyone notice that during the MNF game last night, Mike Tirico said, “allan rossum from Notre Dame is submarined on the play.”
Mike Greenberg this morning was saying he put him up to it (in part, naturally, to needle Golic).
UT? BGSU? Cincinnati? CWR? 
You obviously haven’t seen Stanford. Yes, I know they beat SC. Teams get lucky…just ask App State.