re: ESPN pumping ND. What is your thoughts on ND?

They probably will lose. That having been said... they did play a big boy schedule this year and went undefeated. Yes, some of the teams that are usually really good weren't worth a crap this year.

Still they played 10 P5 squads and beat them all. Their G5 games were with Ball State and Navy, two teams that have been respectable for the last decade but just had a miserable year this year.

I suspect they will not have the offensive firepower or defensive prowess to beat Clemson. Notre Dame seems like a team that is pretty good at everything but not great at anything. Either Clemson jumps on them at the beginning and they collapse or they hang around for a half and then Clemson pulls away.