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Look, I'm one of the first to talk about the power of name brand and historically Notre Dame has a bigger name, but unlike 2001, Oregon is now recognized as an elite power. They were in the BCS CG 2 years ago and in the top 5 last year. Unless they have some really unimpressive win, i don't see the voters just having Notre Dame jump them. Remember Oregon is currently #2 and they play USC before Notre Dame does. If Oregon beats them it will take a little luster off ND beating them. Pollsters do go for name brand, but they also don't usually drop teams they've been voting in the top 2 all year if that team doesn't lose.

I won't believe it until I see it. Don't have much faith in the system. The voters may not jump them but I don't have faith in the computers. If it happens it means Oregon has risen to a point I never imagined would happen.

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Posted by H-Town Tiger

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Posted on 10/9/12 at 10:38 pm to LSUintheNW

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. The voters may not jump them but I don't have faith in the computers.

ND could easily be ranked #2 in the computers given they probably have a better, though not vastly better SOS. But I don't think the human polls, which account for 2/3 of the BCS would move ND ahead of Oregon, unless, like I said Oregon struggles with some crap team or something.

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However, there's some hocus pocus going on here in trying to frame Oregon's schedule out to be much stronger if any.

I'm not saying Oregon's schedule is better, just that Bama's is not as great as people think. The SEC is the best conference and has the most ranked teams so everyone just assumes every SEC team plays some monster schedule. But we only play 8 of 14 teams. So Carolina otoh plays a monster stretch starting last week. If they win the next 2, the should be #1.

This post was edited on 10/9/12 at 10:43 pm

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