OT: Who are wanting to win the NCG?

The SEC's run has been long, impressive, and very annoying. That said, the SEC's time will pass, and they'll be a bit less annoying when that happens. I feel like if it was ended by Notre Dame, we'd never hear the end of how "Notre Dame saved college football from the SEC" or something like that. I don't hate Notre Dame, but they are insufferable.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.



Roll Tide

Maybe we can cheer for that scene from the Dark Knight Rises to happen in real life so that both teams end up losing...

Roll Tide.

A freak January hurricane.

Barring that, Alabama.  I cannot stand Notre Dame and the story about that girl who claimed she was raped by a football player and killed herself when the investigation was half assed at best should have been a scandal somewhere along the lines of the Dave Bliss thing at Baylor, if not quite a Jerry Sandusky level event.

At least no one dies because Saban's an unethical bastard who has suborned an educational insititution in order to win football games.

to be right, so I don't have to watch either of these two annoying teams win a MNC.  I honestly can't decide which team I hate less. 

I can deal with a zombie apocalypse, but I can't deal with insufferable ND fans or obnoxious SEC fans winning a NC.

What I'd like to see, roughly:

* Alabama 77, Notre Dame 0

* Rushing yards: Alabama 200+, Notre Dame -30

* Turnovers: Alabama 0, Notre Dame 5+

I don't like the ESS EEE SEE any more than the rest of you, but one more crystal football to that conference won't change the big picture very much. Notre Dame winning? DISASTER on multiple levels. Please remember that we frequently compete with them for players.

This one is actually tough for me. I don't really know any crazy Notre Dame fans. The only two friends I have that are fans of ND are actually sane guys. I really dislike Kelly though and two guys I know that played for him at CMU have confirmed what we already know that he is in fact a grade A doucher. I also hate Saban and team SEC though. Manti Teo seems nice. I guess I'll just watch and get drunk.

This scenario should be submitted to the makers of Zobmondo, "the would-you-rather game".

I wish for an Asteroid or Meteor right? You say that's not expected to happen

Well okay then, Roll Tide, fuck ND for many of the reasons stated above. that is all

I would like to see ND lose to Bama by about the same score we lost to Bama and it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

Like the others have said, winning the NC isn't too special. You get about 15 minutes of fame, and then next season starts. It's only because the SEC has won them since 2006 that we only hear about them. But if ND wins? Dear god we will NEVER hear the end of that; they're already talking about this season like it's a Catholic Miracle, do we really want them to hoist the crystal trophy at the end?

Plus while Saban may be a dick, at least he hasn't gone purple to his players or killed 2 students

I will cheer for both to lose, but particularly louder for ND to lose and lose badly.

Because, even if they lose, they will claim the 2012 NC.

Seriously though, last week I was thinking ND, but I just cannot bring myself to pull for them. Their fans are the worst.

I want Notre Dame to feel pain.

If only so the small contingent of ND fans in my office would stop talking about their now essentially assured NC appearance outside my office (always, it seems, outside my office), I would prefer Alabama to win (despite desperately hating the SEC for its systematic disregard for rules and student-athletes in general)  if it is not possible for both to lose or if, by chance, the meteor misses its mark. 

I prefer for Alabama to win. And I prefer for them to win very, very big.

As others have noted, both outcomes would suck, but it's a matter of degrees.

Put it this way: If Notre Dame wins, I'll hear about it from their fans for the rest of my life. Think deeply about that. :)

It will also validate their independence, puff up one of our enemy conferences (ACC), etc., etc. I probably don't need to continue with the list.

I hope they all lose.

...what happened in last night's B1G game would be perfect. The Domers getting blown out in the NC game and then us beating them soundly next fall would be a sweet combination.

ROLL DAMN TIDE!!!!

I've never had the horrible ND experience that some here have.  My wife was once burned by a drink ND girl's cigarette, but that was 12+ years ago and no permanent damage occurred. 

But Alabama represents all that is wrong in college football, as it is a school with a history of skirting the rules winning because it simply plays by a different set of rules than the rest, and the weak NCAA has done nothing to curtail it.  I can't complain about them paying high salaries for coaches and having top-notch facilities; that's a school decision.  But the recruiting issues, the St. Saban Hospital wing, the oversigning, and the faint whsipers of player payments and other violations drive me crazy.  Really, the whole SEC drives me crazy.  They make fun of the other conferences for being so weak, but conferences like the B1G have codified rules that curtail the abuses you see in the SEC.  Other people, if they were willing to kick 18-year-olds off of teams because they have someone better and they over-recruiting this year, could pull in similar hauls as most SEC teams, and if they were willing to play fast and loose with injuries and "payments" could field monster squads as well.  There are some geopgrahic elements helping the SEC, but for the most part there is a cultural difference that drives their success.  And as a fan of college football, while I know it exists other places, I don't need to rubbed in my face every 12 months without repercussions.  ND are not saints by any means, but they are closer to the ideal than Roll F'ing Tide.  Go Domers.

You know if ND wins we'll never hear the end of it

I will be rooting for both head coaches to go so insane on the sidelines in a rant that all potential UM recruits watching feel like they would rather beat that team than play for that coach.

Based on UM's play against both teams, Alabama seemed so physically superior.  ND was beatable, and in fact UM outplayed them, but turnovers and execution lost that game.  Alabama, as I watched, was an unwinnable game for UM this year.

So I suppose I would feel better if Bama won.

Hate Saban too much.

Also, Te'o (however you spell his name) is a guy you can root for.

And, sick of Alabama winning every damn year. Last year, they
got two chances to beat LSU and did it once. Does that make them
champs?

I want Notre Dame to lose so badly that that any individual that thinks that they had a chance dies inside. Not a quick death either, the kind of death where the agony causes them to claw their own eyes out to stop the excessive tears from falling. Their spirit will cry for death and it will not come, causing them to have to live with it for the rest of their lives. And I will stand there nodding my head in delight feasting on there their delicious tears.
So, in a nutshell I'm rooting for Bama haha

Please.......go Irish

Imagine the amount of bandwagon fans that ND will have if they win, as if they don't have enough already... Roll tide

To hell with Notre Dame!

I really don't even know how this is a discussion. I hate ND way more then I hate the SEC. I live in Indiana so there is no way I want ND winning. All the ND fans here are so annoying.

The degree to which I care which team wins that game can be measured in degrees Kelvin, and it ain't a big number.

This is such an awful choice.  I hate both schools and if either was playing against virtually any other team in the country I'd root against them hard.  

To me it's like trying to decide who to root for in WWII when the Germans and Russians went at it.