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And they didn't beat a single frigging team with less than 4 losses.
Here is the whole sordid truth on ND's schedule this year
[pre]<TABLE class=statstable width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TH colSpan=3>SCHEDULE AND RESULTS</TH><TH align=right>8-2-0</TH><TH>W-4</TH></TR><TR><TH align=right colSpan=4>
Div IA Independent Record: 1-0-0
</TH><TH colSpan=2></TH></TR><TR><TD>09/03/05</TD><TD>*</TD><TD>Pittsburgh </TD><TD>42 </TD><TD>21</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>09/10/05</TD><TD></TD><TD>Michigan </TD><TD>17 </TD><TD>10</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>09/17/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Michigan St. </TD><TD>41 </TD><TD>44</TD><TD>OT </TD></TR><TR><TD>09/24/05</TD><TD></TD><TD>Washington </TD><TD>36 </TD><TD>17</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>10/01/05</TD><TD>*</TD><TD>Purdue </TD><TD>49 </TD><TD>28</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>10/15/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Southern California </TD><TD>31 </TD><TD>34</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>10/22/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Brigham Young </TD><TD>49 </TD><TD>23</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11/05/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Tennessee </TD><TD>41 </TD><TD>21</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11/12/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Navy </TD><TD>42 </TD><TD>21</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11/19/05</TD><TD>+</TD><TD>Syracuse </TD><TD>34 </TD><TD>10</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11/26/05</TD><TD></TD><TD>Stanford </TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[/pre]
Add in that last 38-31 win over a 5-6 Stanford team and its just plain sad.
Oh, and it's fun to pile on Jax, so it's even worse than that. Let's look at the teams Notre Dame beat with a winning record that are bowl eligible:
Michigan is 7-4 and headed to a 2nd tier bowl (and played that game without Hart), BYU is 6-5 out of the Mountain West playing in the Las Vegas Bowl, and Nave is 6-4 by beating 6 teams with a combine drecord of....9 and goddam 54! All the rest of the teams they beat are not bowl eligible.
If that doesn't scream toughest schedule in 50 years, I don't know waht does...NOT.
But all that matters is that ND *ALMOST* beat USC. It's quite sickening to think about it.
Holtz now is trying to say that Notre Dame's offense is better than Texas'.