Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Even Bob Stoops Questions ND's #10 Ranking


You can add Oklahoma head football coach Bob Stoops to the bandwagon of those questioning why Notre Dame is ranked only 10th in the first College Football Playoff Ranking.

Here's Stoops on his radio show last night:

LINK:  STOOPS ON NOTRE DAME
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Factoring Academics Into CFB Playoff Rankings

The folks at ESPN -- who rarely ever talk about graduation rates of college student-athletes -- created a formula called ESPN GRADE which factors in graduation rates when ranking teams. 

Unfortunately, it doesn't get any play...

Well, ESPN's Gregg Easterbrook penned this piece where he took the College Football Playoff Rankings and "mashed-up" the ESPN GRADE ranking system against their TOP 25.  Here's the new rankings of teams based on graduation rates:

LINK:  CFB PLAYOFF RANKING


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Rolling Stone's Take: "Worldwide Cheerleader"


Notre Dame fans are going to want to read this article penned by the Rolling Stone's Jordan Burchette about ESPN's "cheerleading" for the SEC...

LINK:  THE WORLDWIDE CHEERLEADER
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ND Go Irish Blog Follower Count: 950,000 !!!


At 11:23 PM ET last night a Notre Dame fan from Marble Falls, TX became ND GO IRISH BLOG unique follower #950,000.

Moving ever close to the ONE MILLION mark...

Thanks again for making the ND GO IRISH BLOG one of your Notre Dame stops on the worldwide web!
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Notre Dame Ranked #10 in CFB Playoff Ranking


Well, the "first-ever" College Football Playoff Poll was released in the past 30 minutes and our Fighting Irish are ranked #10 -- with six weeks left in the college football season.

If you look at the rankings -- each of the "Power Five" Conferences have a team ranked ahead of Notre Dame -- is that a coincidence?  I don't think so. 

We're the "eighth best" one-loss team in the country?  Really???

Here's the TOP TWENTY-FIVE:
  1.  Mississippi State
  2.  Florida State
  3.  Auburn
  4.  Ole Miss
  5.  Oregon
  6.  Alabama
  7.  TCU
  8.  Michigan State
  9.  Kansas State
  10.  NOTRE DAME
  11.  Georgia
  12.  Arizona
  13.  Baylor
  14.  Arizona State
  15.  Nebraska
  16.  Ohio State
  17.  Utah
  18.  Oklahoma
  19.  LSU
  20.  West Virginia
  21.  Clemson
  22.  UCLA
  23.  East Carolina
  24.  Duke
  25.  Louisville

LINK:  ESPN STORY
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Theo Riddick Playing Ahead of Reggie Bush?


That is the question being floated around by the Detroit media these days...

The former Notre Dame student-athlete had his best game as a professional in London, England this past Sunday -- subbing for the often injured Reggie Bush.

Here's what they're saying about Theo Riddick:

LINK:  RIDDICK OVER BUSH
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Instead of a College Football Playoff Ranking...


What if, the College Football Playoff Committee announced a list of the 28 teams today -- still in consideration for one of the FINAL FOUR SPOTS -- instead of a ranking?  Then, every week -- for the next six weeks -- they eliminate four more teams from the list.

So, on Tuesday, December 2nd -- the Committee would announce the list of EIGHT TEAMS still under consideration for the College Football Playoff -- with the Final Four announced on Sunday, December 7th.  The Committee would then announce their seeding of those four teams at that time.

So, here's my list of the 28 teams that would still be under consideration for the COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS on October 28, 2014:


ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE:
  • Florida State
  • Clemson
  • Louisville
  • Duke

BIG TEN CONFERENCE:
  • Michigan State
  • Ohio State 
  • Nebraska
  • Wisconsin

SEC CONFERENCE:
  • Mississippi State
  • Auburn
  • Alabama
  • Georgia
  • Ole Miss 
  • Missouri

PAC-12 CONFERENCE:
  • Oregon
  • Arizona State
  • Utah
  • UCLA
  • Arizona

BIG-12 CONFERENCE:
  • TCU
  • Kansas State
  • Baylor
  • Oklahoma

 AT-LARGE:
  • Notre Dame
  • East Carolina
  • Marshall
  • Colorado State
  • North Dakota State
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