re: Hypothetical involving Alabama, Oregon and Notre Dame

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All because ND was 4-0...

Now 5-0 and Gameday for Stanford

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I can't beleive I have to argue for ND AND the media. I can find you SI covers with other teams that were 4-0, 5-0 or so, that's not a big deal. Stanford is ranked, I broke out the other options for GD, I can find much worse games they've been to.

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the media (especially non-CFB Northeastern Media) are going to go gaga..

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I don't doubt that, but I do dispute that it has the all encompassing influence you suggest. So what if some 75 year old blow hards flip out about ND? That doesn't mean people that do follow CFB will suddenly become brainless sheep and vote ND ahead of a team they have been voting #2 all year unless that team stumbles or beats some crap team 7-6.

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If USC and ND win out...November 24th in LA will be absolutely insane...and the latest Game of the Century.

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depends on what else happens. Surely game day will be there, but it will be bigger that the LSU-Bama game last year. They talked about that game for 2 weeks. GOTC is not just used for ND games despite what you might think.