re: ND schedule, not SEC caliber, but harder than I thought

I think they have to. Which is why I pointed to the things Irish partisans should be arguing. But arguing about the bottom half of your schedule being better than your rivals' bottom half is a stupid, pointless argument. Yes, it's true. The crappy teams Notre Dame beat are better than the crappy teams anyone else beat. This just in: it's still a bunch of crappy teams and arguing you beat Navy and Purdue is a completely uncompelling argument.

I'm more attacking the idea of rating a schedule by its weakest parts.