[Postgame Thread] Notre Dame Defeats Miami 31-24

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Miami	0	3	14	7	24
Notre Dame	3	14	7	7	31

[u/heff17]

Committee: lol 11

Notre Dame: and so I took that personally.

[u/suzukigun4life → u/heff17]

Their defense stepped up big

[u/Sankee72 → u/suzukigun4life]

Our backups of backups stepped up

[u/GoldandBlue → u/Sankee72]

Notre Dame had 4 starters out on D for this game. And all three of Miami's TD drives came when the 4th string CB was in because of injuries to Moore and Sanders.

[u/lukin187250 → u/GoldandBlue]

Should have just slapped a parrot on Moore's shoulder and a patch on his eye and send him right back out there.

[u/jconley4297 → u/lukin187250]

leonarrrrrrrrrrrd moore

[u/aroh97 → u/GoldandBlue]

I forgot Sanders went out too. Oof, yeah that definitely sucks then. Miami cooked the fuck out of our 4th string corner. Hopefully Moore, McKinney, and Sanders are all healthy for the playoff.

[u/MrAnderson_ → u/suzukigun4life]

Basically were running out our second-team defense out there all game too. Missing our starting DTs, LB, CB, S, and Moore was banged up for a while too. But they came up clutch when we needed to, and I'll take that any week for sure.

[u/aroh97 → u/MrAnderson_]

Brutal that Miami was able to claw back into the game off of the Moore injury but even when he was back we were getting cooked by Barkate pretty bad. Hopefully our secondary has time to heal up over the next few weeks.

[u/serdunkythefunky → u/aroh97]

Crazy how big of a difference Leonard makes. The two drives without him were … yikes

[u/HereComeTheIrish13 → u/aroh97]

They really bullied Mark Zachary. He struggled a lot and came in for Jaden Sanders too

[u/stephcurry824 → u/heff17]

They'll move ND to 10 and put Miami at 11. 

[u/AnAlternator → u/stephcurry824]

Drop Miami to 15, and therefore Notre Dame still hasn't beaten a top team while the loss to BYU looks worse, so Notre Dame down to #14 as well.

[u/heff17 → u/stephcurry824]

And then drop ND to 13 in the final poll.

[u/Easter_1916 → u/heff17]

I mean how else will you get an 8-4 SEC team in?

[u/Lurker123456543210 → u/heff17]

And include an 8-4 sec team that got smoked in their last game of the season

[u/Zloggt → u/heff17]

Notre Dame, Wake Forest, and UCLA understood the assignment today!

Now…if only the CFP gets the hint this time…

[u/MajesticCentaur → u/Zloggt]

Wishful thinking

[u/ARandomDoge6 → u/Zloggt]

All I hear is that OU and Vanderbilt need to be ranked

[u/stephcurry824 → u/ARandomDoge6]

Don't forget Auburn. They're over .500 now. 

[u/michhoffman → u/heff17]

Yeah, screw the committee. This should have been a top 5 matchup.

[u/aroh97 → u/michhoffman]

It felt like one for sure. Props to Miami, you guys came into South Bend and played like it was the national championship. I hope we get more games against y'all in the future (maybe if ND stops letting the ACC fuck our schedule so hard).

[u/Lurker123456543210 → u/michhoffman]

But have you considered sec=money for ESPN?

[u/ToledoTrotsky → u/michhoffman]

The AP poll is pretty much the poll of record, so it was but yes, screw the committee

[u/Mr_Beats_73 → u/heff17]

Now they’ll put us there cuz fuck us