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Notre Dame is top ten in both polls? We’ll take it!

By J.P. Scott

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - OCTOBER 05: Brock Wright #89 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs for a first down in the first half against the Bowling Green Falcons at Notre Dame Stadium on October 05, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - OCTOBER 05: Brock Wright #89 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs for a first down in the first half against the Bowling Green Falcons at Notre Dame Stadium on October 05, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) /
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Notre Dame is sitting pretty at this point in the season.

For all the anxiety, nervousness, and doubts leading up to the 2019 Notre Dame football season, the Irish are in a pretty good position at this point.

If someone would have told you back in July that the Irish would still be in the top ten of both major polls heading into the second weekend of October, you probably would have taken it. It hasn’t been a perfect season, but that road loss to Georgia looks better by the day.

Notre Dame currently sits at No. 10 in the Amway Coaches Poll and No. 9 in the AP Top 25. Sure, those polls technically don’t matter, but at this point and knowing how the College Football Playoff committee grades teams, the Irish are in a good spot.

A number of teams currently ahead of Notre Dame are going to lose at least one game just based on the matchups they’ll have with other top ten teams. One by one, those teams will tumble down the polls, with very few of them having as “high-quality” of a loss as Notre Dame had at Georgia.

Sure, some of you old-school football types don’t like phrases like “good loss”, but that’s just the way the game is now. College football has essentially adopted the figure skating scoring system, where you gain very little for for doing what you are suppose to do and lose very little for looking good against a high degree of difficulty.

In that regard, all Notre Dame needs to do is keep winning. As it stands, it looks like the Irish will be favored in every remaining game on the 2019 schedule — including the trip to Ann Arbor to face Michigan.

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Keep winning and the polls and playoff committee will shape up the way they are suppose to. It all starts this weekend against USC.

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