sorry dude, but ND sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks. I understand that you’re blinded by the intense arrogance that ND inspires (hey dude, I’m from Chicago and I’m a huge Bulls fan, so I know about inspired arrogance from the 90s), but let’s be honest here. Solon pretty much charted it out for you up top, but also…
No defense to speak of (with an especially horrid secondary), mediocre running game, got your asses handed to you by USC/Michigan, the rest of your schedule was about half a step up from high school, and LSU is approximately a million million million times better. I am not an LSU fan, but I would be amazed if ND does not get absolutely creamed tomorrow.

Damn, why does he vex us?

What’s next? Corso gonna pick us to win as well?

We’re screwed!

Later, the librarian’s coming by and I’ll get kicked out of here

The case for WV–
(1) Beat a Top 12 Rutgers team without their starting QB
(2) Beat GT–for the record, ND’s best win–pretty much without one of the best running backs in CFB; you will have noticed, I assume, that Owen Schmitt played RB for them–not exactly their best weapon in the backfield (look, I think Walker is shit–but if he had missed the GT game, ND would never have won that game. And if you think Walker is in Slaton’s world, you are baked.)
(3) Played in arguably the best conference in the nation–worst case, the second best–that looks like it will very well go 5-0 in bowl games this season.
(4) Lost to Louisville by 10 in the biggest game in that school’s history–and the turning point in that game was when Slaton messed up his hand and fumbled, and the fumble was returned for a Lou TD
(5) Lost to USF primarily because QB White was gimped

The case for ND, as best I can tell–
(1) Beat GT
(2) Beat Penn State
(3) Scheduled two pretty good teams, who both proceeded beat the shit out of them

The ND wins over Purdue and UCLA are, at this point, relatively unimpressive. Beating mighty Navy–one week after their QB went out for the season to injury–was arguably ND’s 3rd best win.

The case against ND:
(1) The skin-of-their-teeth win over Michigan State is, at this point, a little embarrassing for a team that is supposedly BCS-quality.
(2) UNC looked liked they had a functional offense once this season–against ND. Oh, wait, I take that back, their O also looked decent against mighty Duke.
(3) Air Force, who went 4-8, outgained ND. Air Force, you’ll note, lost to UNLV, giving the Rebels their only 1-A win of the season.

I understand that you are an ND fan, but do you realize that the CFB world does not begin and end with ND? Even if you thought it did, I would assume that anyone who has watched ND’s games this season–and, who has some idea as to how good their opponents actually are–would realize how limited their resume actually is.

I love that CJT has no clue how to deal with traps and cutbacks.
If we do anything resembling tackling Schmitt we might have actually won.

However the first half was almost as good as finishing Calculus 3.

Second half was standard CG football, and a microcosm of our season…not enough quality depth…and scared to try to flip field position.

We did PLAY ND, does that count??

Though I must say, some GT alums thought that they only prepared for a WV blowout…

Who cares we’ve had decent QB play for the first time since 2003

I’m flipping ecstatic…

This just in, Webster’s is announcing they’re officially changing the definition of irony to “Having to bench your shitty starting quarterback, watching your backup give you a functional offense for the first time in years, and losing anyway because the defense that was previously the hallmark of your team gets shredded.”

Anybody else notice the weird coincidence of WVU beating a Georgia team in a bowl game by a 38-35 margin two years in a row?

And not soon enough either… that was some of the the worst commentating I’ve ever been exposed to. If you’re going to pretend like you know what you’re talking about for 4 hours, perhaps you should do a bit of research on BOTH teams and not blatantly blow Georgia Tech 3 hours and 45 minutes. This is not ESPN and they are not Notre Dame.

I need a drink.