Notre Dame's Playoff Chances Amid College Football Drama

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00:00Talk to me about this, though.

00:01Like, the advent of Notre Dame getting in over Miami,

00:05where they were looks like they're automatically in.

00:07Now we're having stress.

00:08Is Alabama going to win today?

00:09Is BYU going to win today?

00:10We have so much to go over, and that's what's fun to watch this play out.

00:13Yeah, it is.

00:14I mean, if you want to take a shot, you know, on Calci

00:16and some of the other predictive markets,

00:18you could definitely do that because everything is wide open, right?

00:22And the big thing is we don't know exactly what's going to transpire today.

00:26We have a pretty good understanding statistically about what's happened in the past

00:30and what has happened this year in the regular season.

00:33But styles make fights, and anything can happen on any given Saturday.

00:37But I keep going back.

00:38If we're talking Notre Dame, 54 and 65 are the combined winning percentage

00:43and record of their 10 wins.

00:46You know, USC is their best win at 9-3 overall, and that came at home.

00:51The two biggest matchups that they had against Miami and A&M, they lost.

00:55Those 10 wins are 453 winning percentage.

00:59So, again, when you were riding that heater and it was going up, there was no doubt.

01:04It was under the assumption that Miami would lose.

01:08That Miami or either Miami loses or we didn't have to worry about Miami in some capacity.

01:17The fact that Miami got themselves righted after the SMU and Louisville losses all of a sudden then opened up everything

01:25because, again, you know what really hurt this whole situation too was the whole Alabama argument.

01:31Because if Alabama takes care of business against Oklahoma, Oklahoma, there's another spot.

01:36But because Oklahoma upset, nobody thought that was going to happen, right?

01:40No, the great Alabama and Kalen DeBoer were just going to walk out there and come back home with a W

01:47because that's what they always do.

01:48And they got kicked in the chops and lost a very close matchup to Oklahoma.

01:53But, again, nobody thought Oklahoma –

01:56Brett Venables at the start of the year was looked at as dead man walking.

02:01Yeah, it was.

02:02Because of them over-exceeding expectations and what transpired with Notre Dame and Miami

02:09and the fact that then now you have to worry about Bama, that's why we're here right now.

02:15Because, again, if Bama wins, Miami and Notre Dame are in, right?

02:21Yes.