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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 2787884, member: 3399"]
The object of every team is to win every game on its schedule.  ND has done that.

Not many (any?) teams this year have a lot of wins over "powerhouse" programs.

ND has beaten four teams in the current Coaches Poll Top 25.  Have many beaten more?

I was just responding to talk of the Ball State and Vanderbilt games.  There is no comparison now that Book and Williams are in the lineup.

As far as the schedule, Teddy Greenstein wrote this in the Chicago Tribune today:

"The nation’s No. 3 team has accumulated 11 victories against teams from six conferences — hot teams (Northwestern), cold teams (Florida State), disciplined teams (Navy), brainy teams (Stanford), rowdy teams (Virginia Tech), rush-heavy teams (Pittsburgh), pass-happy teams (Syracuse) and otherwise unbeaten teams (Michigan)."

Just about every team would have been destroyed by Alabama in the 2012 title game.

Hell, the year before that they shut out LSU in the title game 21-0.  LSU got past mid-field once.

Nobody brings up LSU's debacles against Bama.  It is better to get beat bad in the playoffs or title game than not make it there.
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