Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME "We all got enamored with Notre Dame because, 'Boy, that last play, they could have won. What happened? Oh my gosh.' [ESPN college football analyst] Danny [Kanell] has been talking about that. That's probably the best thing they've done. If you look at their entire résumé, and some of the other games they've played, that's why they're down as far as they are." ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit "[Notre Dame] will be in much better shape, because there is a lot of losing left to be done by those ahead of them." — ESPN College GameDay host and announcer Rece Davis on why the Irish should not fret about their initial No. 10 ranking in the College Football Playoff poll "At the end of the day, we have to beat Navy. That's the goal. Wherever the selection committee wants to rank us, they can rank us. I really don't even know who is part of the selection committee. I'm sure they have a lot of skills. I'm going to let them worry about that, and I'm going to worry about trying to stop the triple option. They can do their stuff." — Notre Dame middle linebacker Joe Schmidt on his reaction to the first College Football Playoff poll "The Fighting Irish get a late schedule bump against No. 14 Arizona State, No. 25 Louisville and USC, by which time some members of the committee might be inclined to chalk up Notre Dame's last-second loss at Florida State as a moral victory. I'm not saying the Irish are [or would be] more deserving than any of the teams listed below them here, but you think they're going to get the dry ball if it comes down to an 11-1 lottery?" — Grantland.com's Matt Hinton on the first poll from the College Football Playoff selection committee THEY SAID IT PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA