Not a Championship Performance

Wow, good thing the BC offense stinks.  FIVE turnovers, three in the red zone, dropped passes, etc.  Lucky to sneak out of town with the W.  It was like we did not want to win.  Not sure what the problem was but using coach Kelly's formula, 447 yards of offense should have produced about 32 points , not 19.  We would have been murdered by a good team as once again we played down at the opponents level allowing BC to keep hope in a game that should have been a laugher.  Very disappointing and troublesome to watch.  Obviously we have to play much better to beat Stanford and LOTS LOTS better if we hope to beat an Alabama or Clemson.  Not optimistic on that.

But it was very cool to see Fenway and its conversion into a football stadium.  Once again ND did a great job with the Shamrock game though it was a bit bizarre to play BC in its backyard.  We did allow their band on the field for one joint song with the Band of the Fighting Irish; that was kind of weird.  Boston was a great host and the weather cooperated.

Can we beat Stanford?  Of course we can and obviously we have to do so to have a shot at the playoff. We could still get aced out of the top 4 though two of the undefeated teams folded yesterday. But I think we will have a good comparative resume now that the Big12 and Big10 are knocking off top conference rivals as usual.  The committee has shown some strange behavior and who knows what the conference championship games may yield.  Heck, we could end up #2.  But I will take #4 with a convincing win over Stanford.

Hey the worst case scenario is a major bowl on Jan 1st; not bad.  We are still in the mix and sit at a very pretty 10-1.  For the first time ever, my pre-season game by game picks have been right on.  Unfortunately I picked a loss at Stanford and frankly tonight I feel the same way.  Will have to think long and hard on my prediction this week.

GO Irish!  Beat Cardinal!

The Godfather