re: Is ND that much better with Freeman??

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Freeman just beat the SEC champion by 13

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UGA is not a great team this year. Got absolutely dismantled by Ole Miss, should have lost to Georgia Tech, and a terrible UK took them to the wire.

And on top of that they had a backup QB in that was clearly in over his head and you can see that this wasn't some dominant win over a great team. If Notre Dame plays this hot Ohio State team, they're going to lose by 20.

Last night UGA looked like the West Canaan Coyotes after they went to the strip club all night.

They had something to go off of from Oregon game - they had already played a close game. Texas should have smashed ASU. They fricked around and found out. Vegas is betting lines anyway. People thought Oregon game would be close bc of previous game. The Big 12 was terrible, thus Texas big. I guess putting Swann in game for Nuss being out for LSU would’t have caused the line to move - LOL

Freeman has done a good job this year. To argue otherwise is foolish. But in making that argument you also have to accept they, thus far, have gotten a favorable draw in the CFP. Indiana was 11-1 and deserved to be in the CFP. They are were good story. But they also fell into an incredibly favorable schedule to get to that point. Their non-conf. schedule was awful, and they avoided not just the most of the top of the Big 10 (Oregon, Penn St, Illinois), but somehow most of the middle part of the conf. too (Iowa, Minnesota, USC). They were able to get a win vs. a mostly average Michigan team at home before being demolished by Ohio St...the one ranked team they played prior to the CFP.

Georgia was a much better team. But it's tough to find success against solid opponents (which ND is) without your starting QB. That's not to say ND couldn't have still beaten Georgia with Beck starting. They could. But you have to acknowledge that was a big handicap for Georgia.

The good news for ND is the "buts..." will start falling off if they keep winning. Penn St. is a solid team who is playing well right now. If ND gets by them, they will face Texas or Ohio St. Both are probably among the top 5 most talented teams in the country.

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They had something to go off of from Oregon game - they had already played a close game.

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And they still go it wrong.

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Texas should have smashed ASU. They fricked around and found out.

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No they shouldn't have. If anything it's the other way around. Arizona State statistically dominated that game. While we are on the topic of backup quarterbacks, there are a large number of people that think Texas could be a better team with Arch.

So everyone has an Arch Manning waiting in wings? LMAO The betting line was close bc Beck was out - period. FSU didn’t even make it when they lost their QB. LOL

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So everyone has an Arch Manning waiting in wings?

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No? But if you want to use AJ Swann as a specific example, then I can use Arch Manning as a specific example.

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The betting line was close bc Beck was out - period.

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I don't care. I just proved to you that betting lines don't mean shite.

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FSU didn’t even make it when they lost their QB.

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Literally irrelevant. The committee felt that Florida State's backup QB was so bad that they dropped them out of the top 4. The committee felt that Georgia's backup quarterback was good enough to leave them as the #2 ranked team in the entire country.

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Freeman just beat the SEC champion by 13

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With their backup qb, making his first start.

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The SEC was obviously better than they are now when Kelly was at ND. NIL and the portal has absolutely weakened the SEC’s grip on college football. There is not an elite team in the league.

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Not an elite team in the league? Ohio State? Have you watched their performances in the playoff? Notre Dame is playing at an elite level compared to when Brian Kelly was there, and it's not even close. They are bigger, faster, stronger and bringing in way more talent than ever. Not sure what you're watching. There are elite teams, Georgia isn't anymore.

Here’s something alot of people are missing: BK served under Jack Swarbrick. An AD that publicly said many times “we’re an academic school with a football program. We’re not a football school with an academic program”. BK begged Swarbrick for years to cough up more dough to upgrade facilities, spend in recruiting, spend on coaches, etc. But Swarbrick is gone now and the new AD is more receptive to spending money, which in 2024 is how to build teams year to year.