The lower half of the SEC is a very weak group of teams so playing in a conference--even the mighty SEC has its drawbacks when you can beat any of these teams and use your 2nd and 3rd string after half time.

Mix in some cupcake directionals like W. KY, Florida Atlantic and W. Carolina (where did you find them?) or Towson and LA Lafayette etc. and you have all of the makings of "scheduling for a BCS birth" type recipe for a high ranking in the polls.

Tide only played three tough teams--TAMU, LSU, Georgia--and we know they lost to one and had to come from behind to win the other two.

ND schedule starting out this season featured several teams that had double digit wins the previous year (Stanford-USC-Michigan-MSU etc) and had 9-10 previous season bowl teams on it

That was a whole lot tougher slate than what 'Bama had lined up with one FCS and three directionals that had no chance against the Tide.

You beat a BYU team that couldnt move the ball on san diego state, had 3 pts offensively! If watching that game did not scare the domers than i dont know what did but if you couldnt beat that BYU team by more then 3 then you guys just cant be very good. You beat Navy, Purdue, BC, michigan state is horrendous not sure if you saw them play this year, miami is a joke, the mighty wake forest demon deacons, PITTSBURGH at home in OT are you kidding me?? a USC team with 5 losses, oh and you beat michigan at home by 6 pts when we could have won by 60! Basically you played a schedule with big name schools who aren't very good. You would have lost by 2 tds minimum at tiger stadium at night.