Irish are #1

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE PHOTO (November 18, 2012)

By Pete Byrne WSBT-TV Sports Director WSBT-TV

11:56 p.m. EST, November 17, 2012

Notre Dame will be the number one team in the country when the new BCS standings are released Sunday night.

Notre Dame rolled over Wake Forest 38-0 in their final home game on Saturday, but the big news came several hours later. Top-ranked Kansas State was upset by unranked Baylor 52-24, and shortly thereafter, second-ranked Oregon lost to Stanford 17-14 in overtime.

Notre Dame is expected to rise to number one in the standings, meaning the Irish control their own destiny. A win next week over USC would all but certainly put Notre Dame in the national championship.

Notre Dame is 11-0 for the first time since 1989.

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Cindy Carlson at 7:45 PM November 19, 2012

Let's Go Irish!!

SamColt at 11:46 AM November 18, 2012

I think the Fighting Irish absolutely deserve one of the two spots in the BCS National Championship Game if they beat USC next week. That resume, especially compared to everyone else's, is title-worthy, or at least worthy of a spot in the title game.

It's just that if all you want to pay attention to is resumes—the wins, losses and which teams they're against—rather than all the other information at your disposal, you're going to get a pretty skewed view of actual team quality.

I mean, come on. You might want to argue that Notre Dame deserves to be No. 1 because of its record, but you don't really think it would beat Alabama, right? Right?

Again, this is not to argue that Notre Dame doesn't belong in the BCS Championship Game at this point. Pretty much everyone is going to have Notre Dame and Alabama in the top two come Monday.

Alabama is better than Notre Dame and would likely win a game between the two, probably by more than one possession.

IRISHRJS at 7:22 AM November 18, 2012

Isn't it nice to sit back and watch the hater pukes run their mouths, knowing that now the only thing that can stop the IRISH are themselves ? Our heaven..their hell...society sometimes dispenses out it's sweet justice in the smallest of doses, yet tis good to be IRISH !! And tis better to STAY IRISH !!!! GO IRISH !!!

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