[Snorlax94]

Here’s a sobering way to look at our schedule with the coaches’ poll:

We play 3 of the top 25 teams, which includes playing 2 of the top 11 away at their homes.
We play 4 teams also receiving votes.
Which means it’s easier to list the 5 unranked teams than the 7 vote-receiving ones.
And the teams not receiving votes include playing at UCLA against a Chip Kelly-coached team, & playing at ASU.

I think the danger of Utah is that they always play tough, and we play them at the end of the most brutal mini-series of the schedule (at Oregon, at South Bend, then at home vs Utah). The Notre Dame game is particularly brutal — you fly back from OREgon late Saturday night, then have a shortened week before a long flight to the dome. After that you fly all saturday night to get ready for the always physical Utah.

Despite all this, if the players can improve enough, and the injuries are limited, I am still hoping for the cfp and with this schedule, I ansolutely think we should deserve it with 11-1. With this schedule and enough chaos, I think we would deserve it even at 11-2.

[Snorlax94]

Here’s a sobering way to look at our schedule with the coaches’ poll:

We play 3 of the top 25 teams, which includes playing 2 of the top 11 away at their homes.
We play 4 teams also receiving votes.
Which means it’s easier to list the 5 unranked teams than the 7 vote-receiving ones.
And the teams not receiving votes include playing at UCLA against a Chip Kelly-coached team, & playing at ASU.

I think the danger of Utah is that they always play tough, and we play them at the end of the most brutal mini-series of the schedule (at Oregon, at South Bend, then at home vs Utah). The Notre Dame game is particularly brutal — you fly back from OREgon late Saturday night, then have a shortened week before a long flight to the dome. After that you fly all saturday night to get ready for the always physical Utah.

Despite all this, if the players can improve enough, and the injuries are limited, I am still hoping for the cfp and with this schedule, I ansolutely think we should deserve it with 11-1. With this schedule and enough chaos, I think we would deserve it even at 11-2.