re: A detailed look at Notre Dame's offense

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Not sure. Ask em. I am just pointing out facts. ND, who's offense is getting bashed..only averaged less than 20 yards per game than Alabama. They have two QB's with playing time.

Not playing rent a wins along the way.

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Your argument shows you either don't really know about the teams ND played or you are being disengenous.

Western Kentucky's (one of the rent-a-wins you say Alabama played while saying that ND didn't play any) computer ranking was a good bit higher than Wake Forest and Boston College. I don't think you realize how bad those teams were that ND played.

Hell, even Florida Atlantic's computer ranking was comparable to Wake and BC.

Western Carolina is certainly an outlier but, as expected, Alabama was playing the second half of the roster pretty much the entire second half (as they did in many games) whereas ND was usually going to the wire with teams and having to leave their starters in.

Point is the schedule strengths were actually very close (and they both played some really bad teams) while you are trying to make it seem like the reason for Alabama's statistical advantage is because Alabama played scrub teams and ND did not. That's just not true. The only difference is that Alabama made scrub teams look like scrub teams while ND was often struggling to put inferior teams away in the 4th Quarter.

Finally, 20 yards a game isn't exactly a nominal difference over the course of a full year. And why focus on yards instead of the more important stat - scoring offense? Alabama averages 12 points more per game, which is a big difference over the course of a full year. Difference in 15th scoring offense and 74th.

Like you said, just the facts and stuff.