r/CFB • u/staplor Arizona State • Territorial Cup • 1d ago

Feature Story [Jeyarajah] How BYU booked a program-defining date with Notre Dame in Provo

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/byu-scheduling-notre-dame-provo/
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u/sebsasour Notre Dame • New Mexico 1d ago

There is this idea that every P4 school plays half their schedule against top 15 type teams lol.

I will give The SEC credit because I do genuinely find the league to be insanely deep but pretty much every ACC and Big 12 team only plays a game or 2 against an actual at large playoff level type team. Even The Big Ten is quite draw dependent, plenty of teams can get through that only playing a couple high level teams.

Yes Notre Dame's week to week schedule kinda blows, but we do play what's far and away the best team in The ACC and a team who at least has an argument for best in The Big 12. If we win 11 or 12 games we deserve to be in, if we go 10-2, we don't barring some insane luck with a very weak bubble.

Beyond that it will all be settled in December and January.

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u/bigasiannd Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago edited 1d ago

The SEC is top heavy. Two or three (if you count UT) teams. The rest are inflated because they beat each other. LSU crushed Clemson in the opener, so they were ranked high. Then Ole Miss beat them, UF beat Ole Miss, Mizzou beat UF. So each team gets credit for beating an overranked team.

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u/Altruistic_Night2 Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago

Not really a lot of teams are pretty close to in skill. An example of this is Alabama and Kentucky. Kentucky is a genuinely talented team but people see the final score and think they suck and the league is deep enough to where anyone besides the true bottom feeders (vandy and Arkansas) can upset anybody

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u/Patrick2701 Notre Dame • North Central (IL) 1d ago

You guys play UT Chattanooga