Ask yourself how your favorite team would fare if they played the following in weekly succession: at Tenn Kentucky Alabama LSU at Auburn Georgia week off with Vandy Sou Car This is the question teams like Wisconsin and Boise State need to try and answer.
0-14 (Texas and ND combined), how could you reasonably expect any team not named Fla, nor coached by Urban Meyer, even have a chance. Sheesh. Everybody knows that no team outside the SEC could withstand the brutal SEC schedules. Mich, Ohio State, Texas, ND, So.Cal, etc all would have a hard time getting to .500 playing a SEC schedule.
So how would you like to start the season? Western Kentucky Troy at Tenn. or Ga. Tech at Penn. St. at Mich.
Nice start Gipper...what about the rest? What will be the bowl record this year of all those bowl teams ND has played in 2006?
Oh I'm sorry. Did you post the complete Gator schedule or just a part? As to our opponents bowl schedule, what the hell am I supposed to do with the Rose Bowl?
OK Gipper....I left out FSU...the bowl team that just soundly whipped the team that came within a whisker of beating ND in South Bend and did beat the team that crushed ND in the last game of the regular season. Then there is S. Miss...a bowl team that is also favored to win it's bowl game not mention the bowl team that UF beat by 13 points that ND will get to see in it's own bowl game. How about I will post the bowl game results of ND and Florida opponents when this bowl season is over and you just post...well....you just tell us again how UF played Western Carolina. :lol: :lol:
Hey next year ND travels twice to the West Coast to play games. When I talk about a trip to the West Coast I'm talking about getting on a big plane and flying a couple of thousand miles to play. Not to be confused with some trips to the west coast which entail getting on one's moped and traveling over to Homosassa.
Why did you even bother to start this topic, we get it that you don't think anybody could have played the Fla schedule. That it was tougher than an NFL schedule, certainly tougher than Ohio State's schedule...I don't know why the Buckeyes will even bother to show up in Az. Gators will toy with them.
C'mon fellas......I've missed Gonzo. I'm glad he's back. The stamina that it takes to not grow weary from the incessant chest thumping is truly extraordinary.....a credit to Gators everywhere! :roll:
I like Mo and enjoy his posts. This board would be dead without him. Mo, I have to say I love that schedule. Win all your home games and just go 1-1 on the road and you play for the national championship. Not a bad deal, but that's what it usually takes to be the champion. If a team has 3 or 4 killer games on the road, they wouldn't even get a whiff of # 1.
Good point AJ. Know of any teams in recent NC games who had three or especially four "killer" games on the road. I'll bet not.
Couldn't talk about it Terry if it wasn't true. When I see Kentucky beat Clemson that schedule gets even more validation.
3 out of the 7 SEC bowl teams listed above on Florida's schedule have won their bowl games with Ga coming back on VaTech. Good chance Tenn beats PennSt and LSU beats ND. Auburn, Ark and Fla could win as well. I predict 7-2 for the SEC this bowl season.....plus FSU won as well and S. Miss could win. I can easily see the 10 Fla bowl opponents going 8-2 or at worst 7-3.
Gipper, yours is a fair and legitimate question but I wonder who you are talking about with those first three games?
Do you need more time Bill? Incidently, if you had a new QB perhaps a true freshman, which start would you prefer?
My boo boo gipper, I thought you were talking about 2006 results and you were really talking about how next season starts. I guess Notre Dame has the same first three opponents next season as this season? If so then based on the fact we will both have new QB's and ours probably got more meaningful playing time this season then for sure I prefer how our season starts with the two games to really get him in the groove. So I would have to concede that our chances of getting through the first three games unbeaten are better than yours.
While like many ND fans, I'm interested in seeing Clausen play, I just can't imagine him getting the nod in road games vs PSU and M. Nothing was worse than getting a new toy for Christmas and having it get broken almost immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if M was a top 5 team to start the season and PSU might be in the top 20.
M will surely be top five, unless they look lousy in the Rose Bowl...if they win big, they could start out #1.