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I appreciate the research you did, but by rockmcd

I didn't need that to tell me that Alabama and Clemson have been the two strongest programs in the CFP era (since 2014).

I don't think you necessarily need to have a difficult schedule in order to discern how good a team is. The problem isn't that ND's schedule is weaker than usual this year, the problem is that we haven't been good enough to control the game against those teams the way we did last season.

If we had an average margin of victory of 20 points or more, then I don't think our schedule would be a tremendous impediment to making the Playoff, but since we've been playing down to the competition this year I expect Tuesday's committee rankings to have ND a couple spots lower than our current AP and Coaches Poll ranking.