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BCS Chances (El Gigante Merge)

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Don't worry about ND making a BCS game... If they win out they make it. Once ND makes top-6 ranking they are automatically chosen.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/abcsports/BCSStandings

Check out this link.
ND only "sucks" in the BCS because they have not fooled the computers... Unfortunately they will gain respect due to everyone freaking losing yesterday. I started doing math and ND was getting close to a 7 rank and that was conservative. After conf championships atleast 1 team should drop paving a way for NBC's bitch to regain National recognition and automatic recruitment of any good, semi-smart, parochial football stud. God bless them.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Its been discussed a million times on here but the ND rule is 9 wins and a final BCS of 12 or better.

6 or better applies to non-BCS schools ( WAC, MAC etc)

4 or better is what a BCS school who doesn't win the conference has to be in order to get an automatic at large bid.
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While it is true that Notre Dame becomes BCS 'at large' eligible with 9 wins and a final BCS of 12 or better, they do earn the automatic berth with a finish of 6 or better in the final BCS (like non-BCS schools).

From the offical BCS website:

For the 2005-06 season, Notre Dame gets an automatic qualification if it is ranked six or better with nine wins. The Irish are eligible for BCS bowl selection if ranked 12th or better with nine wins.

Link: http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=faq
 
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IndyBucksFan said:
While it is true that Notre Dame becomes BCS 'at large' eligible with 9 wins and a final BCS of 12 or better, they do earn the automatic berth with a finish of 6 or better in the final BCS (like non-BCS schools).

From the offical BCS website:

For the 2005-06 season, Notre Dame gets an automatic qualification if it is ranked six or better with nine wins. The Irish are eligible for BCS bowl selection if ranked 12th or better with nine wins.

Link: http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=faq
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Thats true but I've never even worried about it. IF ND is ever eligible they are getting one of the 2 spots so in effect 12 is their automatic number.

Besides there is no way they get to 6th in the BCS this year.
 
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We will be a solid 7th in this week's BCS. If we beat Michigan, and LSU, Penn State, Va. Tech or Miami, FL lose another game...we get an automatic BCS bid. If we all win out, then the BCS will have to choose between Notre Dame and Ohio State for the final at-large (cuz the first one would go to Va. Tech). So I suppose if Notre Dame loses, we'd have a pretty good shot too.

But...even if everything in the other games goes wrong for us...I could give a shit, as long as we beat that team up north. The regular season is over. Time for the second season! Go Bucks!!! Beating Michigan will be far better than getting into any stupid BCS bowl!
 
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TSUN has improved during the year. This is The Game and you can throw records and past performances out the window. Irregardless of how TSUN players try to play the rivalry down, they will be playing their best game of the year.

I see two possibilities:

1. We blow them out.
2. We win a close one down and dirty in the trenches.

These scenarios will depend largely on our desire to score points. If we get a lead and throttle back, I think we will see Option #2. I think we need option #1 for the computer models. So, I am hoping for a blow out not only just because I want TSUN to hang their heads, but because I want a BCS bowl for this team.

On the other hand, I got Jonathan's back on this like a lot of you, a win over TSUN makes the year for me too.
 
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We will be a solid 7th in this week's BCS. If we beat Michigan, and LSU, Penn State, Va. Tech or Miami, FL lose another game...we get an automatic BCS bid. If we all win out, then the BCS will have to choose between Notre Dame and Ohio State for the final at-large (cuz the first one would go to Va. Tech).
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I don't think that BCS conf schools (that have an auto-bid for a conference winner) the top-6 does not guarantee a BCS birth. We need PSU to lose to get the Big-10 spot or we need 1/2 atlarge bids.

The first of the two at large bids is definitely goin to Notre Dame. Assuming Miami, Fl wins the ACC they automatically get Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl gets the first choice this year so I'd assume they will take Notre Dame. The Fiesta Bowl choses second (and will take ND if not first by Orange Bowl). The other option is for them to take us for a Miami-OSU rematch. The "low-priority" bowl game this year is the Sugar Bowl. So they automatically get the Big East POS team along with the traditional SEC champ.
 
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rmjones25 said:
I don't think that BCS conf schools (that have an auto-bid for a conference winner) the top-6 does not guarantee a BCS birth. We need PSU to lose to get the Big-10 spot or we need 1/2 atlarge bids.
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You are correct. As has been posted many times, a BCS school that is not the conference champ has to be final BCS top 4 to get an automatic at-large bid. Its the Kansas State rule from 1998.

Its designed to keep a very highly ranked and deserving school who travels like shit or has bad TV appeal from getting the shaft like KSU did.
 
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Any Bowl at this point IMO

I wouldn't mind seeing the Bucks play a top tier SEC team or Miami. The SEC is probably going to get stuck playing the South Florida or WestVA. Pretty much seems like ND-PSU is all but set. Not much mystery to me. It's either the Orange or Capital One vs UGA or 'Bama or Auburn. Any of those matchups sounds great to me. I'd rather play one of the SEC teams than a Big Easy team in a BCS.

After the Penn State loss, my hope was that that we'd begin a run like USC started, basically, after their 2-loss 2002 where they came on and pretty much looked like the best team by season's end.

Next year is all about revenge.
 
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you know what? i almost believe that syracuse will give the irish a decent run for the first half to first three quarters this saturday. except for the horrific defensive effort against florida state, syracuse's defensive secondary is not terrible. i'm not predicting an orange victory, but i do see the first two to three quarters as being a tester for quinn and weis' passing attack.

moreover, the game against stanford may be more difficult than it looks on paper. stanford's offense has shown spark, but its defense is anemic. playing at stanford stadium, the cardinal may be relying on a victory against the irish in order to be bowl eligible (they play california this weekend).

the pleasure of seeing the irish and nittany lion fans tuck tale after bcs-killing end of season losses would be outweighed only by seeing the bucks drive the nail home in a bcs bowl game against either team, though pitting osu against psu will not happen anyway.
 
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