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Post updated with video evidence. This video loops 3 times. I only show where he was losing control before the ND player hit the ball. You can clearly see he was trying to maintain control of the ball.
Notre Dame v Miami Catchgate Update:
They ruled it not a catch because he didn’t have full control of the ball as he was bringing the ball down from over his head. Had the ND player then hit the ball after that or not, it would have been the same ruling.
Rules analyst Terry McAulay (former NFL referee) said on the NBC broadcast that Lofton bobbled/slightly lost control of the ball as he was bringing it down and landing, and that he never had it long enough to complete the process of the catch before the ball came loose. That matches what the officials saw on the field and on review.
The defender (Luke Talich) did contact the ball, but the ruling hinged on Lofton never fully establishing and maintaining control through the catch process, especially while going out of bounds. Simply getting both feet in and briefly having the ball isn’t enough if control is already slipping as you land or exit the field of play.
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Quality wins (teams over .500)
Indiana 5
Texas 4
Oregon 4
USC 4
Miami 3
Florida 3
Minnesota 3
Iowa 3
Ohio State 3
Ole Miss 3
Texas Tech 3
Georgia 2
Kentucky 2
Utah 2
UCLA 2
Houston 2
BYU 2
Alabama 2
LSU 2
South Carolina 2
Missouri 1
Wake Forest 1
Tennessee 1
Notre Dame 1
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Notre Dame currently has four ranked opponents on its schedule, tied for the second-most among Top 25 teams alongside Alabama and Georgia. Only Kentucky has more with five.
Notre Dame is currently 1–1 against ranked opponents, with a win over No. 25 Wisconsin and a loss to No. 8 BYU. Notre Dame still has No. 1 Miami and No. 19 SMU ahead.
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Kirk Herbstreit seeing the latest AP Poll with 4 Top 25 teams on Notre Dame’s “embarrassing schedule”
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Current top 12 teams SOS
Miami: 58
OSU: 11
BYU: 36
UGA: 32
TTU: 80
IU: 24
Miss: 13
ND: 42
Utah: 100
UCLA: 51
Tenn: 23
Kentucky: 2
Average SOS: 39
It’s not “slop” it’s on par with every other playoff team
But it could be the hardest in history and people would still complain
With the 24-team playoff, Notre Dame has won the war to keep its independence.
In return, the Irish need to use it wisely and compile a much better schedule than the slop they managed this year.
Column for @yahoosports
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Also: Marcus Freeman is 15-9 in ranked games at Notre Dame. He's won 62.5% of those games, the third-best mark in school history.
He has more top 10 wins than any coach at ND not named Leahy, Holtz, Devine, Parseghian. Not bad company.
Recency bias must be resisted.
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According to FPI, Notre Dame's current SOS ranks 60th. That's ahead of the following Power 4 programs:
Miami
SMU
Nebraska
Oklahoma St
Syracuse
Texas Tech
Boston College
Washington
Minnesota
Arizona
Georgia Tech
Cal
West Virginia
Cincinnati
BYU
Baylor
Pitt
Kansas State
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Utah
Duke
Their schedules aren't embarrassments, however.
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At the start of the 2025 season the AP had 10 teams from the SEC ranked in the top 25. The Big Ten had 6.
The SEC went 2-8 against other conferences in the postseason last year.
The B1G went 10-4.
The final AP ranking had 7 SEC schools and the Big Ten had 6.
Once again, the AP had 9 SEC schools ranked in the top 25 at the start of this season. The SOS is artificially propped up by these preseason rankings.
NEW: The College Football Playoff committee will now consider a strength-of-conference metric in its selection process, @CFBHeather reports.
The new metric will help determine the strength of each conference based on the schedule strength of each team in its league.
on3.com/news/report-college-…
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The 16 games were against 6 FCS schools, 7 G5 schools, and only 3 power 4 schools. Out of those 3, 2 of them were won on the last play of the game and the other one was against Dabo Swinney in the NIL era so it doesn’t really count as P4. Surely the strength of schedule chest beaters will acknowledge this.
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It's still insane that IU took Daley (829th overall in the portal, 84th among edge rushers) and Wyatt (888th overall in the portal, 91st among edge rushers) and they generated 27 TFLs and 8 sacks in 20 combined games. And now both are back.
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In fact, 8 Big Ten schools play at least 5 of the Top 25 teams in the preseason Coaches Poll.
2 Big Ten teams play 6:
• Michigan
• Ohio State
6 Big Ten teams play 5:
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• Northwestern
• Purdue
• USC
• Washington
Quick math.
9 SEC schools play at least 5 of the Top 25 teams in the coaches poll
Not a single Big 10 team plays 5.
Efficient work
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ohio State plays 6 teams.
Michigan plays 6 teams.
USC plays 5 teams.
Nebraska plays 5 teams.
Minnesota plays 5 teams.
Washington plays 5 teams.
Purdue plays 5 teams.
bigten.org/fb/schedule/
