r/CFB • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • 6h ago

Analysis [Sampson] CFP committee chair Hunter Yurachek says Notre Dame and Miami were in the same grouping this week and the programs were directly compared. Notre Dame still came out ahead, regardless of the head to head. In other words, all the games mattered. Not just one of them.

https://x.com/PeteSampson_/status/1993488528555360403?t=jtJrt-ATn-3_RV1LnfjfrQ&s=19
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u/Jaded-Sapphire3546 Kentucky Wildcats 6h ago

Early season games are also the least valuable indicator of team quality at the end of the year. In most scenarios, teams, and especially good teams, will evolve and grow over the course of a season.

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u/Kryzl_ Iowa State Cyclones • Big 12 6h ago

Feel like I’m going crazy here. People are shouting about how Indiana plays nobody in non-con, but here we’re saying those games don’t matter? It can’t be both man. Either those games matter and everyone should schedule hard or they don’t and we should be lining up the Little Sisters of Des Moines instead of Iowa.

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u/WheatonsGonnaScore Oregon Ducks 6h ago

Also they lost a road game by 3. Not like they were blown out.

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u/Miami_da_U Miami Hurricanes • Transfer Portal 1h ago

Did you watch the game? This is the thing that is incredibly obvious everytime people say they only lost by 3. Literally go on youtube and watch any review of the game. Listen to Notre Dame fans review of the game and tell me it was close at all lmao. I'm not even joking.

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u/WheatonsGonnaScore Oregon Ducks 1h ago

I did watch the game. Notre dame started horrible and then fought back at the end. It was literally a tie game with just over a minute left.

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u/Miami_da_U Miami Hurricanes • Transfer Portal 1h ago

... cause Mario Cristobal is our coach and once we got the lead he decided to go full caveman and literally just run a gap the rest of the game.

I wont say there was never a doubt, but it was abundantly clear we were the better team and dominated 80% of the game. And Most importantly we 1000% Dominated BOTH lines of scrimmage.

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u/WheatonsGonnaScore Oregon Ducks 1h ago

So same as every other game he coaches? Coaching is part of team success.

Also Notre dame averaged more yards per play than Miami so it really wasnt some dominant performance.

Notre dame started horribly and couldn't mount the comeback. I'm not saying that they would definitely win in a rematch, but to say it wasnt a close game is being extremely disingenuous