The Rest of College Football

[Paul L]

ND losing is the cherry on top; what a freakin' game.

[Mike]

Their white WB looks like he's 12.

[CGVT]

That was a classic. Just amazing. Brian Kelly's anguish is tonic for the soul!

Ha!

[Detroit Dan]

Yup, Michigan will move ahead of LSU and Oklahoma in the national rankings to #5.

[Cody_Russell]

If FSU loses to Ole Miss, perhaps Michigan can move up to #4.
I'm not sure if they would jump Ole Miss up over Michigan. It could be pretty close with the other top 10 teams falling out.

[CGVT]

Maybe Notre Dame should have played a "tune up game" before playing Ha!

[Cody_Russell]

I didn't realize that Brian Kelly has only won 10 games or more twice in his 6 seasons.
If Notre Dame goes like 9-3 this year, I wonder if he starts to feel more pressure, if not already.
2/7 10+ win seasons at ND? That wouldn't be good enough for Michigan.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Brian Kelly labors under the same sometimes too high expectations that M fans have. Doubt he gets let go despite the clamoring of the fan base.

ND doesn't have a Jim Hackett nor a President who really understands how important a winning football program is to keeping ND in the news and the money flowing in to the U. They also don't have an idiot like Dave Brandon who was the catalyst for Hackett who then hired Harbaugh. Finally, who are they going to hire to replace Kelly? No chance Herman is even looking at that.

[Pasadena Blue]

I don't agree. I think Herman would definitely look at ND ... however, I didn't expect to see Kelly on the hot seat.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Fair enough on Herman. It's really unclear what he's likely to do. Houston isn't going to be able to afford to hang on to him when the suitors come calling and pretty sure that is going to happen quickly, ND won't be one of them, obviating him replacing Kelly.

I do think Kelly is going to take a good deal of fan/donor heat for the loss to Texas and that loss will linger throughout the season unless he gets ND into a playoff spot. Then they will love him ....... Until ND gets thrashed by someone like Bama.

[UMStan White]

ND has a hell of an up hill fight to get to a playoff spot. The Texas loss out the gate really hurts them, especially if Texas stumbles down the road, which is a real possibility. The MSU game becomes critical. ND can't lose that or all hope is lost regardless of what Texas may do.

[CGVT]

ND has a hell of an up hill fight to get to a playoff spot. The Texas loss out the gate really hurts them, especially if Texas stumbles down the road, which is a real possibility. The MSU game becomes critical. ND can't lose that or all hope is lost regardless of what Texas may do.

That's great isn't it? I hope they miss out on a playoff spot because they don't play in a conference.

Greedy bastards.

[UMStan White]

"That's great isn't it?"

Yep!

[iam416]

Still think Herman ends up in the NFL. I also think he might stay in Houston for a few more years. They're B12 bound. And there's no reason he can't have them near the top of that conference.

[edindetroit]

Texas wins, 50-47 in double overtime, and we have our first contender for game of the year. That was fun.

Wow, I was watching that game happy as a clam that Texas was whopping those stinking golden domers so I switched to a chick flick to placate the wife (I didn't have a horse in this race other than I hate ND so I didn't care ). Looks like I missed a barn burner. Probably better since ND coming back would have raised my blood pressure.