That only sorts schedule toughness by oppoents winning percentage!
See WVU - played no difficult non-confernce games and plays in the worse BSC conference. Their oppenants winning percentage is high b/c it includes Louisville and Rutgers who also built up nice win-loss records by doing the same.
ND played 4 Big 10, 3 Pac-10 and 2 ACC teams. So just like any other BSC school they played at least 9 games against BSC conference opponets. One of their non-BSC conference opponents was a bowl team.
Hey Au Contraire, enjoy.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/stewart_mandel/04/20/draft.programs/index.html
Low graduation rate wrote:
Hey Au Contraire, enjoy.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/stewart_mandel/04/20/draft.programs/index.html
According to ESPN.com, there are currently 30 former Trojans on NFL rosters. Notre Dame has 32, so relax with that argument. ND puts plenty of players in the NFL.
As for the schedule ranks, I have my own questions about the one ranking Cincinnati as having the #2 toughest schedule in the country, but the two lists have put ND at #'s 19 and 24, not 100+ like many seem to suggest.
I'm a Notre Dame grad and agree with everything in your post. One point -- Notre Dame doesn't just get $1MM and doesn't just qualify for the BCS. This came about because other schools agreed, for whatever reason. I suspect good business sense.
Puh-Leeze institute the 16 team playoff and settle this on the field. Agree, the other bowl games become totally irrelevant. I'm from Maryland. They play Navy. Big Woop. If they played Navy with the chance to advance to play ???? -- I'd have a lot more interest. (Of course, it would have to be a 32 or 64 team tournament for those teams to matter, but i can dream.)
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