“We’ve struggled with that during my time here, complementing each side of the ball. We are beginning to do that much better. Our offense is complementing our defense, which we saw today.” -Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly, via Heather Dinich, ESPN The College Football Playoff is inherently an imperfect system, albeit one which brings significant improvements over the BCS era. It is naturally impossible, for example, to place a range of five conference champions into four semifinal spots in the playoff, because math. Throw in another contender, perhaps from a non-Power-5 conference, and mayhem ensues as not one but TWO Power-5 conference champions are left out of the Playoff. This scenario looks like a likely one this season, as Notre Dame has actually managed to live up to its hype for six weeks and remain undefeated. As an independent, Notre Dame has a long way to go to receive…
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