ND probably does not deserve to go.
From CBS:
“SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame knew what was coming. Stanford doesn’t get cute inches from the goal line.
And after three years of getting pushed around by the Cardinal, the Fighting Irish pushed back, winning the most important shoving match they’ve had all season.
Or did they?
A wall of Notre Dame defenders stopped Stepfan Taylor inches from the goal line on fourth down in overtime and the seventh-ranked Irish remained unbeaten with a 20-13 victory against the No. 17 Cardinal on a soggy Saturday in South Bend.
Taylor kept reaching and turning with bodies underneath him, and his knee never did hit the ground before reaching the ball across the goal line. But the officials ruled it was too late. The whistle had blown, and that meant the play was stopped.
Taylor finished with 102 yards on 28 carries. He needed 103. “
Any ambiguous play goes ND’s way, for some reason. Maybe bias on the part of the refs; maybe a pact with Satan.
I don’t know.
ND is way overrated, but so are my Dawgs. We won some close ones to teams we should have smoked.
Alabama got exposed by LSU and then beaten by Texas A&M. They don’t look nearly as formidable as they did earlier in the year. If my Dawgs play perfect, if they come out on fire on both O & D, then they can win. I don’t know one game this year that UGA had both the O and the D and the Special Teams playing their top game at the same time.
We will see what happens, but I am only guardedly hopeful.
It sort of evens out..Stanford could have gotten the call against ND..yet last night, against Oregon got the late TD after the on-field call was reversed..and that was a really tough call..I thought the original no score ruling might stand, because there is supposes to be CLEAR and INDISPUTABLE evidence ( that’s the standard) to overturn the call on the field, and I wasn’t sure if there was. It could have gone ether way..so somehow it evens out..