and in this one I am more on 200% agreement.

If you look at the games played, as you laid out, you see that not many teams are playing at a playoff caliber level as measured in years past. ND is no different, so if playoffs it is, lets go for it, not going to cry one bit about that. Also not going to sleep in watching the playoff pairings until ND is at 11-1 and some more madness has taken place.

The people that don't take a couple of mins of effort to go beyond the boxscore (hello committee), and you can't say they do if you see the Rutgers, Maryland etc in the records of those top teams, love to tear us apart but also love to take us in because of the money we bring into the coffers. Perverse system no matter what.