re: How is A&M beating a mediocre Notre Dame team the best win in CFB?

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Notre Dame beating Georgia 23-10 last year sort of justified the medias infatuation with Notre Dame.

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Nobody has gotten more mileage than ND out of beating a backup QB in his 1st career start

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ND offense is better than Georgia. That’s not even a controversial statement. Just because you weren’t impressed doesn’t mean much, when every SEC team would give up their season high rushing total if they played ND.

ND defense was their issue. But how good is Georgia’s defense really?
Their pass defense looks about as bad as ND.

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And our defense has improved a ton over the last 5 games or so. Our pass defense in particular was truly awful through 2 1/2 game (it wasn't just you guys - Miami in the opener and fricking Purdue of all teams in the first half against them absolutely diced us up throwing the ball); that appears to have been mostly fixed since then - there was always too much talent on that side of the ball to be quite that bad, and they are getting to be more than respectable at this point. New DC, really potent passing offense for A&M, etc. just was a bad combination at that point in the season. Craver and Concepcion were wide the F open all goddamn night, and that will be my lasting memory of that game.

We've played two good offenses in Arkansas and NC State and one of the best offenses in college football in SC since then and squashed the first two and held SC in check pretty well. It's been Freeman's hallmark since he has been at the program - the team improves a ton over the course of the year, in particular on the defensive side of the ball. Last year's unit was almost certainly one of the 3 - 4 best defenses in the sport by the end of the year but definitely had some problems early on with some teams that would raise eyebrows like NIU (obviously) and Louisville.

These people are squawking because they know damn well a 9 or 10 seed Notre Dame is a hell of a lot more dangerous than a 9 or 10 seed BYU or Virginia or even Miami or likely Oklahoma or Vanderbilt or whoever the hell else would be in that slot. There are about 6 - 8 teams that can truly win this thing, and you all and we are two of them. Combination of talent, depth, ceiling, coaching capability, and so forth limits all but a handful of teams from reaching the pinnacle; of the 18 teams that surpass the Blue Chip Ratio test, only Alabama (89%), Ohio State (89%), Georgia (84%), A&M (83%), Oregon (78%), Texas (78%), Notre Dame (73%), Oklahoma (70%), and Miami (64%) - kind of - are still in this; LSU (73%), Penn State (68%), Florida (64%), Auburn (64%), Michigan (57%), USC (57%), Clemson (55%), Tennessee (54%), and Florida State (54%) are all out.

Georgia hadn't lost at home since 2019.

Notre Dame lost at home to Northern Illinois just last season.

Bama beating Georgia on the road was probably the best win in college football the past 2-3 years...it certainly was the best win this season.

Bama lost to FSU. So they aren't in the conversation of unbeatens.

Booger is a retard and it isn’t. Right now I can think of two better road wins; Bama over Georgia and Indiana over Oregon.

Haters gonna hate.

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fluke extra point win by A&M

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When Texas wins pulls lucky OT wins against the worst SEC teams in the conference and loses to a now coachless Florida “a win is a win”. And “Texas is back”

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When Texas wins pulls lucky OT wins against the worst SEC teams in the conference and loses to a now coachless Florida “a win is a win”. And “Texas is back”

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Aggies would never shut up about Texas winning off a missed extra point and missed holding on the last play. You guys still bring up Vince Youbg’s knee.

The butthurt over A&M's season is hysterical. Doesn't the OP have a booger that needs eating?

We didn't need a missed extra point and a holding in either of those. We earned those wins.