{"id":61203,"date":"2025-11-26T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61203\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:56:27","slug":"stanford-hc-throws-miami-under-the-bus-before-notre-dame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61203\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford HC Throws Miami Under the Bus Before Notre Dame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 9 Notre Dame<\/a> is trying to win its 10th game in a row when it travels to play Stanford<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Following an 0-2 start to the season, the Fighting Irish needed to win out to have any hope of making the College Football<\/a> Playoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made for No. 13 Miami to jump ND if the Hurricanes defeat Pittsburgh in Week 14. Miami and Notre Dame would both have 10-2 records, and the Hurricanes beat the Irish 27-24 at home in Week 1.<\/p>\n

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However, the CFP selection committee’s job isn\u2019t to find the 12 most deserving programs. They have to fill out a 12-team bracket that includes seven at-large bids that go to the best teams. <\/p>\n

Most analysts would argue Notre Dame looks like a better team than Miami before December, despite losing the head-to-head matchup in August.<\/p>\n

Stanford interim head coach Frank Reich tends to agree with that sentiment. In a Zoom conference this week, Reich said the Irish look “like the best team” the Cardinal have played all year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no doubt. It\u2019s a challenge. It\u2019s exciting. This is a good football team,” Reich said<\/a> of Notre Dame, via On3. “Like, when I put the tape on yesterday, I was like, woo, I mean, this is a real deal. I mean, this, to me, looks like the best team we\u2019ve played all year. In the film I\u2019ve watched, they\u2019re really well-coached. You can just see it. It jumps off the tape. They\u2019re very well-coached… <\/p>\n

“For me, mostly looking at their defense right now. I\u2019ll get to the offense a little bit later today. But looking at them defensively, really good across the board. So it\u2019s going to be a good challenge for us. I mean, it\u2019s a great opportunity for us coming off a big win, an emotional win (over rival California), to be able to lock down against one of the better teams in the country.”<\/p>\n

Maybe Reich isn’t trying to give ND bulletin board material, but Stanford played Miami earlier this season. The Hurricanes hardly looked like a pushover when they routed the Cardinal 42-7 at home on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

Of course, recency bias might play into Reich’s thinking. The tape his staff had to watch of Notre Dame thumping Syracuse 70-7 in Week 13 would put chills down any opposing head coach’s spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 9 Notre Dame is trying to win its 10th game in a row when it travels to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,123,7209,125,5079,124,1538,10961,24055,6815,17048],"class_list":["post-61203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-football","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news","tag-ncaa-football","tag-notre-dame","tag-notre-dame-football","tag-stanford","tag-stanford-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}