Numero Uno

   The path to the BCS Championship opens for the Irish!

I cannot believe it. Notre Dame was seemingly on the outside looking in to the BCS Championship. Needing help to get a shot at National Championship #12, the unthinkable happened on Saturday.

#1 Kansas State lost was completely exposed by Baylor, who before this weekend was ranked #120 out of 120 FBS teams in total defense. Yeah, that's a Heisman trophy QB on a national championship team.

#2 Oregon finally played a team whose defense was ranked above 80, and managed only 14 points. Tell me, with all the talk about how amazing Oregon was, why did I never hear even once that their FG kicker had kicked 1, that's ONE, FG all season? Do you think being able to kick a FG would be important in trying to win a national championship? I guess they realize it now!

What does this tell us? It's clear that "THE EYE TEST" is total BS!!! Any method by which you objectively compared Notre Dame to KSU or Oregon showed that ND had a better resume. I'm not saying a better team, but we had played a stronger schedule with a dominating defense and an offense that tried to not get in the way. Missouri State, North Texas, Arkansas State, Fresno State, Tennessee Tech. These are some of the juggernauts that the Wildcats and Ducks padded their stats against.

We still have to get the job done next weekend against USC. Do you need any more motivation than a shot at a National Championship? Sure you do:

"At the end there, when they didn't call those timeouts, they just quit. And that's what Notre Dame football's about. They're not anything like USC."

That's USC senior Chris Gallipo last year. Did Matt Barkley agree?

"It seemed from our sideline and our perspective that they did give up. It seemed uncharacteristic of Notre Dame. I wouldn't have wanted to have been on that sideline."

Oh yeah. I've been waiting a year to get payback for that crap. I hope we crush them 42-0. The Heffernan family will celebrate with the game watch party to end all game watch parties. Then, and only then, we can talk 'Bama. Until then...