Which team can claim “Hold my beer”?

[W-S HerdFan]

App: Goes down to College Station & beats #6 A&M. Throws a miracle HM to beat Troy last second, then allows a scrappy JMU to shut them out 2nd half and blow a 3 TD lead in the process. Coach Clark: “We have to look at everything: Offense, Defense & ST.”

Marshall: Goes into South Bend, looks straight at Touchdown Jesus & beats #8 ND. Goes up to BG & implodes, losing in OT. Then goes down to Alabama & offense scores 7 points while giving up almost 1/2 dozen sacks and being dominated by a good Troy defense.
Coach Huff: “Gotta get that fixed.”

Both teams are 2-2. Both teams have “breather” games this weekend, at home vs lower division opponents. Who gets to claim they have underperformed more than the other after both pulled off historic upsets in week #2?

 

[The Real SamC]

The question of which team blew a great victory will be answered on the fields. No, not the fields of the SBC, but on those of the two defeated teams.

Notre Dame plays a cupcake schedule, but still does play an handful of legitimate opponents. If, and I think this is likely, it finishes about 8-4 and some undeserved 22ish ranking, we will know that, really, UND was a mediocre team in 22. Texas A&M plays in the Greatest Conference In the History of Humanity, and will face that tremendous schedule. If, TAMU goes 9-3 or better than Appy pulled off a tremendous upset, if it loses 5 or 6 games, and then likewise we will know that they just caught a name team on a down year.

 

[CamJoanBaller]

App: Goes down to College Station & beats #6 A&M. Throws a miracle HM to beat Troy last second, then allows a scrappy JMU to shut them out 2nd half and blow a 3 TD lead in the process. Coach Clark: “We have to look at everything: Offense, Defense & ST.”

Marshall: Goes into South Bend, looks straight at Touchdown Jesus & beats #8 ND. Goes up to BG & implodes, losing in OT. Then goes down to Alabama & offense scores 7 points while giving up almost 1/2 dozen sacks and being dominated by a good Troy defense.
Coach Huff: “Gotta get that fixed.”

Both teams are 2-2. Both teams have “breather” games this weekend, at home vs lower division opponents. Who gets to claim they have underperformed more than the other after both pulled off historic upsets in week #2?

One team played good for 4 quarters. Another team played good for 10 quarters....

 

[Jartard]

App: Goes down to College Station & beats #6 A&M. Throws a miracle HM to beat Troy last second, then allows a scrappy JMU to shut them out 2nd half and blow a 3 TD lead in the process. Coach Clark: “We have to look at everything: Offense, Defense & ST.”

Marshall: Goes into South Bend, looks straight at Touchdown Jesus & beats #8 ND. Goes up to BG & implodes, losing in OT. Then goes down to Alabama & offense scores 7 points while giving up almost 1/2 dozen sacks and being dominated by a good Troy defense.
Coach Huff: “Gotta get that fixed.”

Both teams are 2-2. Both teams have “breather” games this weekend, at home vs lower division opponents. Who gets to claim they have underperformed more than the other after both pulled off historic upsets in week #2?

App actually blew a 4 score lead as they were up 28-3 at one point…at home. JMU is no joke though. JMU smoked an MTSU team that just beat the brakes off of Miami. Bowling Green is a joke.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Notre Dame plays a cupcake schedule

Have you even looked at their schedule? They still have #19 BYU, #5 Clemson, and #6 USC to play and started the year with #2 tOSU. That alone negates "cupcake schedule".


While UNLV is not that well talked about they are 3-1 and 1st in the MWC West and Syracuse is 4-0 and 1st in the ACC Atlantic.

Now I will give you that NAVY, Stanford, and BC are garbage, but ND has anything but a "cupcake: schedule.

Their schedule would look even better if Choking Charlie had taken care of business the last two weeks.

 

[IslandHerd1]

Cupcakes. Lolz.

 

[raleighherdfan]

Have you even looked at their schedule?

Of course he hasn’t. This was going to be Sammy’s narrative regardless whether we won or lost at ND. He’s been working on it all summer.

 

[The Real SamC]

Notre Dame plays the easiest schedule of any team that is taken seriously. This year, last year, next year, for the last 40 years. Marshall, UNLV, Navy, Stanford. And it very rarely even plays true away games. Four this year.

UND does this because it can. It will always be the highest rated team with how many ever losses it has. It will always go to a better bowl than it deserves,. As the playoffs have taught us, it’s all hokum, they wouldn’t have a winning season the SEC or even the Big 10 in many decades.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Notre Dame plays the easiest schedule of any team that is taken seriously.

There are teams with equally soft in years and teams with worse. Clemson being one as the ACC over the last several years has been pretty week. Same can be said of OU and Texas. tOSU's schedules in most years aren't all that impressive. USC is a team taken seriously and the Pac-12 is pretty poor. The truth is most P5 conferences aren't very good once you remove the top 3-4 teams.

This year, last year, next year, for the last 40 years.

Another dumb and presumptuous statement. As proven by the fact they have #2, #19, #5, and #6 on their schedule this year. No an entire schedule of ranked teams. You're allowing preconceived bias make your point.

Marshall, UNLV, Navy, Stanford.

So you use 4/12 games to make your point.

And it very rarely even plays true away games

Nor does any other blue blood. Have you ever looked at LSU's OoC slates? What about Oklahoma? All three of tOSU's OoC games were at the Shoe. Bama had one road game in Austin. What do you even consider to be a true "away game"? Is playing at tOSU not a true road game? Is playing at UNC not a true road game? Is playing at USC not a true road game?

UND does this because it can. It will always be the highest rated team with how many ever losses it has. It will always go to a better bowl than it deserves,. As the playoffs have taught us, it’s all hokum, they wouldn’t have a winning season the SEC or even the Big 10 in many decades.

Arguing a corrupt system doesn't support your claim that their schedule is a cupcake schedule.