Paul

Notre Dame football.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Some things we can control:
1. PB needs to improve overall strength of schedule if possible. Starting a season with back-to-back tough teams is not ideal. Add a spacer game.
2. That said, coaches must have the team read early in the season.
3. Field goal kicking must be fixed.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@USCTrojansFTFO @TPCarney

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@johndlukacs @CollegeFBonX That was amazing.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

This is one of the greatest plays in football history.

[Cool Old Sports @CoolOldSports]

Two future Pro Football Hall of Famers in college action. Alan Page of Notre Dame making the hit on Purdue QB Bob Griese in Notre Dame Stadium.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Number 3 has maybe been addressed. https://t.co/WuxtXlgXME

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Spencer Porath made a 40-yard walk-off field goal at the end of Notre Dame’s jersey scrimmage to give the Irish offense a 34-31 win.

Porath didn’t miss a single kick all day. A perfect 9 for 9, Marcus Freeman noted.

Freeman: “He’s been as consistent as any kicker we’ve had.”

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Some things we can control:
1. PB needs to improve overall strength of schedule if possible. Starting a season with back-to-back tough teams is not ideal. Add a spacer game.
2. That said, coaches must have the team read early in the season.
3. Field goal kicking must be fixed.

[History of College Football @HistColFootball]

Alan Page, ND Fighting Irish, Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, 1st defensive player to win NFL MVP. College & Pro Football HOF. #GoIrish #CollegeFootball #Vikings

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

All predictions guaranteed correct, or your money back.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

I assume he'll be snapped up by a top program before long. There are no guarantees. (Remember Tommy Bowden at Tulane, or at Scott Frost at UCF, or that one guy at Cincinnati?) But if I had to place a bet, he's a good shot to win a championship some day.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Concerning.

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conducts a poll of 662 male students, asking one question: “Would you marry a girl who drinks?”

University officials are alarmed that 357 respondents (53.9%) are willing to have a girl who has let alcohol louch her lips.

[tmar8 @Tmar8]

It’s not talked about enough that the SEC have built in home games for bowl and playoff games. Time to put a playoff games in Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota and Indy.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Georgia fans still can’t get ND out of their head a year after we humiliated them.

[Dr. Johnny Fairbanks @drjohnnyfair]

These playoffs show that @NDFootball had no business being in this playoff. They couldn’t compete in the regular reason, they can’t compete now. #CFBPlayoff

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@Bueller79 @arc777471351 @JohnMassingale4 FSU proved they could beat a playoff team.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@Bueller79 @JohnMassingale4 If DeBoer ever wants advice on how to beat Georgia or Indiana in the postseason, I’m sure Freeman would take his call. Anyway, congrats on kicking a field goal to avoid the shutout.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Is it a formal requirement that you lack any decency and shame to become a conference commissioner?
@GregSankey

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

"I actually think we deserve seven [teams] in [the CFP].

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey shares his thoughts on how many teams should make the CFP 👀

[Brendan @verypiratey]

The biggest reason the committee put in an Alabama team, that limped into the end of the season, was the four-game "gauntlet" of ranked opponents they beat.
UGA
Mizzou
Vandy
Tennessee
Those teams went 0-4 this bowl season.
Alabama lost 38-3.

Take a bow committee, you did it

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

To everybody not infected with pro-SEC bias, it's been transparently obvious that Alabama is not the same program they were under Saban.

[Lawrence Dockery @ldock93]

When you already have a loss and then your last four games are a loss, an FCS win, a seven point win against a 5-7 team, and a non-competitive loss you are not a playoff team

[acallan1 on Bluesky @acallan1]

this might be a tough pill to swallow for us ND fans but there is no greater expert in not winning national championships than Tommy Tuberville

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

Which of the these teams improved competitively because they joined a conference?

(Genuine question. I'm not well-versed in the history of all these programs).

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

When I started watching football in the '80s, these teams were independent (not in conferences):
Miami, Penn State, Florida State, Pitt, West Virginia, Southern Miss, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Syracuse, Boston College, Louisville, Rutgers.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

When was the last time ND got an unfair post-season advantage? Probably 1994 when we didn't deserve the Fiesta Bowl (Bo was a little kid). There was a brief 2-year period in the early bowl coalition when there was a special ND clause, but we sucked, so we never benefited from it.

[Bo McNally @BoMcNally]

I’m getting more and more salty about this. This is genuinely pathetic and just reeks of entitlement from an institution that ALWAYS gets favorable treatment from the powers that be. Pre-season rankings they don’t deserve, benefit of the doubt with SoS, and constant attention from the media regardless of their record.

They haven’t won a natty in almost 40 years and they act like they’ve won it every other year with their level of entitlement. Grow up.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@markwooster @NDJackNolan By the way, I’m muting you since you haven’t shown the integrity to acknowledge which team won the national championship that year.

[Paul @BuildHimAStatue]

@markwooster @NDJackNolan ESPN had major influence in setting the narrative in 1993 and does so still today. With just a few exceptions, their talking heads took the lead in 1993 in arguing that head-to-head didn’t matter—at all. Why the fuck do you think we’re boycotting their shitty bowl?