College Football Week 12, in which Les Miles reads Houston Nutt's will

Fuck it. Let Houston play in it.

Or....

Arkie beats LSU. Bama goes to the SEC title game and loses to UGA. LSU and Arkansas wind up 1-2 and in the BCS championship, second and third in the SEC West.

 

BYM: This is kind of my point. People were making definitive judgments based on a freak week one result, and woe to anyone who counseled rational wait-and-see calm. And a large reason for it was the perfect storm of a game between a team that the board hates (or, probably more accurately, thinks is consistently overrated) against a team that the board generally loves as it is the alma mater (I think) of an esteemed board luminary.

All in good fun, but not gonna let this one go.

 

The average human's skin is two millimeters thick. Dick's? Onionskin.

 

How so?

I don't think that old board saw about me is really applicable here.

There was a lengthy thread after week one in which it was debated whether Notre Dame was a better team than USF. It only makes sense that we revisit it now. Kind of like how in pro sports you can't evaluate a trade properly until years later.

 

Yeah, now that they have all of one win against a team with a winning record against I-A opposition.

 

ESPN still has not reported the Uekmann story. Is it waiting for the presumably forthcoming announcement from the school?

 

Notre Dame has two, right? Michigan State and Wake.

 

Three. Forgot about Air Force.

 

That's why I added the I-A qualifier. Air Force and Wake both have I-AA wins and are 5-5 otherwise.

 

Yep

 

Got it.

Their day of reckoning is coming next Saturday. I don't think it's beyond comprehension that Notre Dame goes into Palo Alto and upsets a Stanford team that seems to be living on borrowed time right now. On the other hand, Stanford is liable to blow them out and expose Notre Dame as largely a product of, as you point out, a very soft slate.

It would have been interesting to see Notre Dame this year with something resembling a Division I-A-caliber quarterback. Alas, you play with the hand you are dealt.