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It's a Catholic school playing so I thought I'd add this. Not a great start for the Domers. I've never much liked ND, but I straight up detest Saban and Bama.

Go Notre Dame!

Maybe we could get an off topic thread?

Uh oh. Jesus signaling another Bama TD?

Rooting for ND just because Alabama has won so many times recently already (like to root for the underdog). Unfortunately, Alabama is killing ND, might go to bed soon if they score another TD.

Is there a mercy rule?

I don't even think Alabama is that good. Notre Dame just looks plain awful.

Oregon was the best team I saw this year. At least in basketball it is determined on the field.

LabRatScott wrote:Oregon was the best team I saw this year. At least in basketball it is determined on the field.

You highlighted on something very important. In FBS football the regular season actually matters. That is great. When you watch essentially any regular season college basketball game it very rarely matters. People rave about these great regular season games between Nova or the Cuse and G'Town. Ultimately who cares, right? They'll be in the Big Dance and that is when it matters. If you lose, so what. Big deal. Effectively everything from November until the third weekend in March is the NBA regular season until the playoffs start. That is something that FBS football has on college basketball, the regular season means everything.

And yes you can make a claim that Oregon should be the champion. I don't agree but can understand the rationale. I get it. The beauty of what we see in college football is that a great team wins each year. A great team. Does anyone think that UCONN 2010-2011 was the best team that year? They lost like 8 games in the Big (L)east. Frankly they got hot and the right time and Kemba killed it. I honestly think UK was the best team last year but I would go so far as to say that the team that wins March Madness is probably not the true "best" team 60-75% of the time. I am more troubled by this fact than whether Oregon should have been champs last night. But that's just me. Neither system is imperfect however.