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Is Pitt and Purdue top 10 to? ND could only manage a 3 point win against both.
Lets remember that Alabama played Michigan in week 1, Carolina got them 3 months later.

Im not trying to tear you up, but i have a VERY hard time believing Notre Dame was good enough to be in the top 25.

then give me 25 teams that were better than Notre Dame

Look, Im not saying Notre Dame was elite this year, I'm saying Alabama was. I have a very hard time thinking that Ole Miss, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Auburn were better than Notre Dame, I even have a really hard time thinking Florida (way over-rated all year) and South Carolina (take out Clowney and they're not in the discussion) were better.

Across the country: Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M, and Oregon were better. Stanford, Florida State, and LSU were even with Notre Dame, if there was 1 team better in that group, it's probably FSU.

I see where your coming from, Notre Dame did not look like a regular top 10 team, but this season, there were not 10 teams that looked like a top 10 team. Same with the top 25. look at the bottom half of the AP and USA polls and tell me those teams are top 25 teams