I dont think Anyone is that team to beat anymore. With so much turnover on each team in every transfer season. Its not like Bama or Clemson a few years back. Itll be one off teams for a while till things change. Repeating wont happen not anytime soon.
Especially with the amount of games needed to play now. Too many opportunities for a one off bad game in the playoffs or terrible injury than in the past.
Naw they lost a ton, wont be bad but is no where near the team as last year. O line gutted, had to bring in a new qb. Dont think they are one of the top 2 teams in their confrence
@braisedin What I’m talking about is independent of how the team is projected to perform in the next season. Everybody wants a piece of the school that won it the previous year.
@braisedinI think someone is drinking haterade. Never doubt Curt Cignetti and his ability to coach up that team. They will be in the mic for a national Title once again.
@braisedin O line gutted? Wow talk about zero knowledge. They have 4 main guys left and added Brunner from Wisconsin. They will arguably have the best O-line in CFB. What a comical take.
@braisedin lol IU returned 4 of 5 starters from last year and added a top tier talent to replace the 5th starter. You always have the option of just not talking about things you have 0 idea about.
Well as a Hurricanes fan am shocked a Notredame fan would say something nice about Miami & back at you I love that Notredame roster & talent & that quarterback Carr is the real deal that game Miami & Notredame might be the game of the year!!!
It was a shame that the Texas team that mugged Michigan in their bowl game didn't get to prove itself in the 12-team playoff. After all, they also beat both Oklahoma and Texas A&M who did make the playoff.
•Michigan without its Head Coach who was fired December 10th 3 weeks before that bowl game. It was a close back and forth game until late in the 4th quarter I’m mugging would be just dominating the entire game. It was still a 4pt game with 7 minutes left in the game.
As a Miami fan, the biggest goal is to try and win the National title. But, a BIG secondary goal is to win the ACC. They've never won it. I think that a lot of us want that real bad.
@Revelationfourone I loathe that manufactured rivalry. It’s funny the ACC tried to create a rivalry to help UofL try and become a more serious program in the eyes of everyone else.
The team to beat is Indiana….Being the defending champion gives them that distinction until someone else dethrones them. Everyone else can be seen as contenders to do so…..some will have better odds than others….
Idk why my buckeyes are favored to win a natty. We lost so many defensive players. And also our offensive line was cheeks and they all are back....maybe theyll be better...but we replaced so much.
Because Ohio state just does that year in and year out. Do you not remember wat ya’ll lost last year to the draft and still backfilled tremendously? I’m not worried about Ohio state I think ya’ll will be just fine
You're not a fan keep up with your team we had the best off season adding 14 experienced players and bringing back elite experience players and loaded up on tje staff are you okay? Do you not keep up with your team? Nobody is as deep as OSU, this team is more deeper then 24 national championship team and more experienced then 25 team, 26 team simply should not have any weaknesses
The most important thing to consider when talking about Miami is, that they have only been serious and spending real money on football again for about 5 years now. They were spending less on entire coaching staffs than the big schools were spending on just a HC alone. Those days are over. So in 5 years Miami goes from irrelevant to playing for a National Title....
You think they’re just going to rattle off last years run? With what was lost? He kept the doubt up way longer than he should have last year. But what you’re talking about here is just logic and reasoning. Not saying they’re going to fall off a cliff but color me a doubter that they run that performance last year back.
@williamwhitfield6225well it is pretty hard to improve on the first 16-0 season in College football history. Cig gets the benefit of the doubt, period.
@Tyler-oh2zyYeah I’m not mad at that statement. I’m not putting that expectation out there because it’s crazy. But if he were to make a run back to the natty even with a L and we’re having the goat discussion
@Tyler-oh2zy I just don’t think anyone in this era can just be chalked up as the team to beat. Cig doesn’t play on the field and was perfectly capable of having a team lose in the playoffs the year before. He’s probably the best coach in the country but he’s not magic
@williamwhitfield6225IU lost alot, but are bringing back a ton, and on paper have better players transfer in all over the field! IU might lose a game in the regular season, and might not win the Championship, but they are not going away!!!
I’m biased but the buckeyes are THE team to beat. That’s first talking point on any teams record if they beat them and the best win for every team if they can pull it off.
Hey Josh you got ND up top as one of the fav's and they were deservedly left out in 2025 then Georgia who cheated blantly in 2025 and bought there spot in the sec playoffs just to loose there first game. But no mention of the 7th game team on ND's schedual BYU who was kept out of the playoffs by the sec in 2025 and have 90% retention and a Hiesman QB also...So I ask you why and how much are you getting paid to continue putting BYU down...
Amazing how these national people sleep on Ole Miss. They have the #1 QB, #1 RB, and by far the best kicker. Just get to the 40 and they got points. Plus a much improved defense. Do have a much harder schedule but Trinidad 🇹🇹 with another year and Lacy in the backfield will be awesome to watch.
Caesar's has ND as the favorite at +600 with OSU at +675. Must have been like chewing dog doo for Pate to admit ND is one of the favorites although he spent much more time on Miami than ND. Miami lost a ton of production. 2/3 of their starters are gone.
If we just look at what Vegas is saying, they think Texas is by far the best team. Teams like notre dame with a 99.9% of making the playoffs barely get better odds
It's Ohio State #1. 1st year QB, two freshman running backs, no offensive coordinator in the end, no field goal kicker, inexperienced o line and still only lost to the 2 title teams in close games. Imagine what they will do now that all those issues are addressed
Miami is the team to beat. They're last years national title contender and they are arguably a better equipped team than last year's championship run. The defense may have taken a slight drop, we'll see, but their offense took a huge leap forward. These guys are hungry too...watch out for the Hurricanes.
@Necile2 dude.... Their schedule is ALREADY 50 percent ACC.... Why don't they have 6 SEC schools on their schedule? I'd LOVE to hear the answer to that. They are basically playing an ACC conference schedule as a Non conference member. I mean, just LOOK at their schedule.
@ShadowTwister28 First of all, Necile is hardly a "dude's" name. Secondly, the SEC is too chicken to schedule ND, and the SEC is not much better than the ACC. ND has played TAMU the last two years and played Arkansas this past year. Oh, and they kicked Georgia's ass in the Sugar Bowl.
ND's QB is already in Heisman contention, so quit with the homerism. ND's RBs are pretty darned good, too, and the portal was mighty good to ND regarding the DL. ND also picked up two five-star WRs from OSU, and their secondary is going to be ridiculous. It will be a good game, but you need to be realistic about any perceived advantages.
I am hopeful, but I’ve gotten used to winning 10-12 games and then blowing it in the playoff. I feel like every year is someone else’s “magical year.” One of these days Oregon will pop, but I not gonna put money on it for any specific year
@lukemay9382 Oregon only got blown out against Indiana because of injuries and the stupid transfer portal. The timelines for college football are stupid.
@rickschilling7390 No, he wasn't. Oregon and Indiana were tied until halfway through the 4th quarter in their first game and Oregon lost 12 guys that were in the rotation in the week before the Indiana game due to injury and the transfer portal. Oregon had to use RB3 and RB5 and then pull some guys off the defense to act as backup RBs. Oregon also lost a big chunk of their 2nd string defense.
I honestly don't understand why ND is the odds-on favorite to win the natty, makes no sense to me. They'll make the playoffs because they have a cupcake schedule, but they will get destroyed by real teams.
I know. It will be a repeat of when Notre Dame made the 2024 CFP and beat cupcake teams like Indiana, Georgia, and Penn St. Talk about bad teams, those are three of the worst teams ever. And then Notre Dame goes to the national championship and gets absolutely destroyed by OSU. If you don’t believe me just look at how much they were losing to OSU with less than 3mins to play. It was 31-23. Completely annilhated. And look how bad Notre Dame got beat by Miami and Texas A&M in 2025. They got absolutely blown out in those games. And of course Notre Dame’s 2026 schedule is loaded with cupcakes like SMU, Wisconsin, Miami, BYU, and a horrible Navy team that had one of its worst seasons in 2025 and is expected to repeat that horrible season in 2026. And if you need more proof than that, just look at the cupcakes Notre Dame plays in 2027, 2028, and 2029. Awful teams like Texas, BYU, Clemson, Miami, VT, Alabama, Auburn, Miami, Pitt, Arkansas, and Georgia Tech. What a joke. Call me when they play real national powerhouse teams that everyone else plays like Furman, Wofford, The Citadel, Kent St, Grambling, Eastern Illinois, Mercer, and of course the MIGHTY CHATTANOOGA MOCS!!!
So willfully ignorant. Do you have dementia? Two years ago they literally stomped Indiana and Georgia and beat a very talented Penn State team in the playoffs. Then last year they barely lost to the #2 team in the country on the road and were a dropped snap away from winning against Texas A&M. People like you are just a waste of brain cells because you hardly ever use them
I see you’re a Georgia fan. You calling your Dawgs a cupcake team when ND laid the pipe against them in 2025? Georgia is literally inferior to ND in everything including football 😭😭
Sorry lost all credibility when you said the sec was still the better deeper conference when the facts clearly state you are wrong.. so much for you relying on the analytics 📈
JP, again.. if you're gonna Dog ND sched.. then you better put, Ore, IU, ol Miss, Miami w/o ND on sched it's a joke, TT, PSU are a embarrassing... but yet Crickets .. lazy take Pate..
The B1G is 10-7 the last two years against the best of the SEC. The worst team in the B1G just won it ALL. B1G owns the last THREE national championships. There are zero weak schedules in the B1G.
I is going to be better than last year this year. If any of the so called elite programs take Indiana as a joke it will be a repeat of last year. IU will dominate and beat the breaks off of teams
Indiana non conference schedule is a joke again. They get Ohio State and USC at home ( 2 toughest games) then at Michigan ( could be tough) and at Washington ( above average team) so atleast Indiana has to put their big boy pants on 3 times ( maybe four if Washington is good) so that’s tougher thsn last season when they had at Oregon ( very tough game) and Michigan ( which had a true freshman Quarterback who was not coached up or ready) Big 10 is so top heavy with more awful teams than very good teams ( Purdue, Rutgers, Northwestern ) awful (Minnesota and Nebraska mediocre at best)
Sure. 1st title ever. Wow. No such thing as a defending champion. Why? Because you don't get any points when next season starts. Tell me about that .430 winning percentage since 1886 or the 3 conference championships you've won since then. In other words, history is not in your favor. I get it though--you have to root for something. Too bad it's a mascot that noone can name.
@chriswolf1265 I don't know what a Hoosier is. That's what i said. Dont' bother me with another name for a team with a 140 year history of being sub .500. It's Friday evening little girl. Go be a little girl somewhere else.
@wesleygary6651So recent history is irrelevant but ancient history is? Does Nebraska or even Minnesota have a better shot than Indiana because of their history 30+ years ago?
@CokeBoi6969 Either/or. Indiana does not have the depth to repeat what they achieved last year. The Heisman winner is gone, running back, all but one starting wide receiver, the QB coach miracle worker for Mendoza is now in the NFL....as for 'ancient' history well that's obvious. 17 transfers coming to Bloomington? 17? I'll call it FSU north until someone can prove that an entire side of the ball (plus 6 guys in reserve) can win a natty. It didn't work at FSU under Norvell and you can be sure that if Mendoza had a season ending injury in the Big 10 title game Indiana wouldn't have been allowed into the CFP. Everytime some team wins a title out of nowhere their fans always claim it's just the start of sustained success. Everytime. Well it just doesn't turn out that way--and history agrees.
Lmao,why is Georgia being discussed if ole miss isn’t, I don’t have a prob with ole miss not being the team to beat, however, if Georgia is in the convo,the better team which is ole miss, should be to, obv big school big name bias in this video.
Okay snowflake Pate...since you won't commit to a favorite, I'll help you out. INDIANA will beat Notre Dame in the CFP National Championship next January.
@braisedin very apt comparison: won a bunch of championships when we still watched movies on VHS and have been coasting off that and nothing else since then
@braisedinso please elaborate how we are delusional? Before this year we as a fanbase in totality have never said we were the best in the country nor has everyone else. This is literally the first year since I've been born that we have been considered the favorites to win it so how is that delusional? Please explain since you know so much buddy 🙃
do you just refuse to ever give Indiana any credit/look? You self admitted you were wrong every single time picking against Indiana this past season, why are you refusing to learn.
Pate picked against Indiana all year. All year he was wrong. He doesn't know football. Cignetti lost 2 games his first year- the national champion on the road, the national runner up on the road. He hasn't lost since. Indiana is more talented this year overall than last year. Pate? No mention of Indiana. Pate is the Cramer of college football . Pick against Pate and win. Every time.
2015-2018 it was all Bama and Clemson. Then LSU comes in and blows it all up. Maybe they do it this year. They have the players and their best coach since Saban.
If an SEC team won you'd automatically put that team as the prohibitive favorite.. giving them grace a saying since they were the champion we need to give them grace and someone has to beat the champ to be the champ... When big ten wins 3 years in a row .. your favorite to win was always SEC or not the same team... You guys are terrible and it's obvious who pays your bills... That contract makes you say things that contradict what you generally say other years about sec conference... I see you... And I stopped listening to this insufferable coverage and lies to protect the brand
Buckeye fan myself and have tremendous respect for what Indiana now is with Cignetti but no one not even the most do hard fans should feel like it’s even close to repeatable THIS season the Hoosiers are a main stay as long as cig is there now but there’s 0 chance they have the same success this next season all that being said hopefully all of the big 10 is in the cfp🤷🏼♂️
Notre Dame. It's always Notre Dame. The cards are stacked in their favor. Top 12 auto bid, etc... Notre Dame has "salvation" via the transfer portal. Touchdown Jesus works in mysterious ways. Let's "join hands" and pray about it.
ND's schedule is all time pathetic. Other than Miami game ND will be double digit favorite in every game. They don't play a conf champ game. They walk into the playoffs with home field advantage and a heisman trophy. The playoffs will be brutal for them...
Everyone said the same thing in 2024. They managed the playoffs just fine. And BYU and SMU will probably also be ranked, so their schedule isn't as easy as some other teams' schedules.
I want ND to be out half way through the year strictly cuz of the bowl game thing. Whining loses respect, nothing more. Play games and prove your worth. As far as getting screwed out of the playoff goes, ask FSU how they feel about getting left out…. They still played a bowl game that year… just sayin.
@shenanigansx1888 Because you're on here running your stupid, stupid mouth and being an embarrassment to fans everywhere with your unhinged jealousy and butt-hurt.
The last team to beat the Hoosiers is the team that has owned the state of Indiana in football and my home state but I bleed blue and gold and I guarantee that N/D has a tougher schedule than 90 percent of the conference teams and The Fighting Irish have something to prove for being screwed outta the playoffs last season and #13 is going to show everyone that he's the QB that should be hyped up. Go Irish ☘️
If notre dame wins it all this year I will whole heartedly believe in sports being pre determined. Such a spoiled brat of a team. Join a conference and quit being a cry baby. I love Marcus freeman, however the fan base makes this team miserable to hear about.
They have the easiest schedule and the only team in college football guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. 8 of the teams on their schedule this year had 8 or more losses last year.
@charlesyarbrough2619 their schedule is not easier than TTU or Miami’s, both teams respected contenders because they wear a patch on their jersey. It’s idiotic
@charlesyarbrough2619 They are only guaranteed a spot if they are ranked in the top 12. Gee, what a concept that a top 12 team get a spot in a 12-team CFP. Get over your unhinged NDDS.
@Necile2, so you understand how this is gonna work. If ND is ranked 12th. They will knock out the team ranked 10th. The 11th and 12th spot is held, legally by committee and playoff contract, for the hughest group of 5 and highest conference champion. So ND would take a spot from someone ranked higher than them. No, that doesn't make sense. There is no NDDS, it's fairness in the sport. Tell me that TTU and Miami has 8 teams on their schedule that had 8 or more losses last year. ND does.
Unfortunately, there is a high likelihood that we will never see a full season of college football. Sorry for the inconvenience but Bible prophecy is soon coming to pass. Better unplug from Babylon now!
I really like Donte Morre. He just gave him self a back door if he doesn't come through.
I dont think Anyone is that team to beat anymore. With so much turnover on each team in every transfer season. Its not like Bama or Clemson a few years back. Itll be one off teams for a while till things change. Repeating wont happen not anytime soon.
Especially with the amount of games needed to play now. Too many opportunities for a one off bad game in the playoffs or terrible injury than in the past.
So long as it's a big ten
IU by a million
Oops that could be an armadillo!
In any given year the defending champion has a de facto “team to beat” status about them. So, I’ll go with the Hoosiers
Naw they lost a ton, wont be bad but is no where near the team as last year. O line gutted, had to bring in a new qb. Dont think they are one of the top 2 teams in their confrence
@braisedin What I’m talking about is independent of how the team is projected to perform in the next season. Everybody wants a piece of the school that won it the previous year.
@braisedinI think someone is drinking haterade. Never doubt Curt Cignetti and his ability to coach up that team. They will be in the mic for a national Title once again.
@braisedin O line gutted? Wow talk about zero knowledge. They have 4 main guys left and added Brunner from Wisconsin. They will arguably have the best O-line in CFB. What a comical take.
@braisedin lol IU returned 4 of 5 starters from last year and added a top tier talent to replace the 5th starter. You always have the option of just not talking about things you have 0 idea about.
Man just said “Texas A&M” in a video about teams to beat 😭
If you are the bottom half of the SEC they might give you a game.
Every year man 😂
Well they are definitely a team to beat about 4 times a year lol
They are losing a lot of talent
To the draft I thought. As good as they should have been, choked again.
They lost their D line coach. That’s a bigger loss than anyone realizes
Came here to read the rabid fan comments. Was not disappointed.
Opinions, at this time of year, are worth just what you pay for them!
As a notre dame fan I’m hopeful for this year but id say Miami is on the up and possibly THE team to beat looking forward to the rematch
Nope, as long as Mario is there they won’t do shit.
Well as a Hurricanes fan am shocked a Notredame fan would say something nice about Miami & back at you I love that Notredame roster & talent & that quarterback Carr is the real deal that game Miami & Notredame might be the game of the year!!!
@caseymiller5257 imagine saying this after they went
To the national title game 😂
Have you seen our roster? Loaded. ☘️
@stormwarning522 It might well end up being a #1 vs #2 game by November.
Indiana all over your own graphics but they’re not one of these teams to beat
JP man you just never learn
It’s Indiana, they need to be relevant for more than 1-2 years. Indiana is just a flash in a pan.
@423Leelol best coach in CFB but sure
@Peyjonifor now. I can see his personality getting old for players eventually. We'll see if he has staying power.
Lucky ND got screwed and they didn’t have to play them. Because they would have lost. Everyone would have.
@flyingirish31hahaha in your dreams buddy
It was a shame that the Texas team that mugged Michigan in their bowl game didn't get to prove itself in the 12-team playoff. After all, they also beat both Oklahoma and Texas A&M who did make the playoff.
•Michigan without its Head Coach who was fired December 10th 3 weeks before that bowl game.
It was a close back and forth game until late in the 4th quarter I’m mugging would be just dominating the entire game. It was still a 4pt game with 7 minutes left in the game.
As a Miami fan, the biggest goal is to try and win the National title. But, a BIG secondary goal is to win the ACC. They've never won it. I think that a lot of us want that real bad.
Everything, we want it all 😈🌀
that's crazy to think about, 20 years and no ACC title. Im a buckeye fan but always respected miami. hopefully you guys get it this year!
The Schnellenberger Trophy will decide the ACC champion.
I would love for Miami
To win a natty same
Year as missing the ACC title, it would just be infuriate haters even more. Go canes.
@Revelationfourone I loathe that manufactured rivalry. It’s funny the ACC tried to create a rivalry to help UofL try and become a more serious program in the eyes of everyone else.
Side note.....
What is the story on the silver pig behind you on the shelf?
Thank you
Rod
Pretty sure that’s a tribute to the Floyd of rosedale trophy, the trophy that is shared by Minnesota and Iowa.
There's al2ays more than one "team to beat"....it's always Georgia, Ohio St, Texas, Oregon, Notre Dame, Miami, etc
OH… that offense is gonna be a well oiled machine under Arthur smith
IO
I just went to FanDuel, and they have Ohio State as the favorite, not Notre Dame. 🤔
Shout out to Toledo!
Haven't started the vid. I'ma guess he says Oregon
He mentions the usual suspects
Two monster-sized ND weaknesses: third and short offense, and placekicking. Either one will cost them a win somewhere.
We got new kickers, and we’ll see about third and short
That first game could tell a lot about Notre Dame
Wisconsin? That game is meaningless 60-0 wouldn’t matter.
I apologize I was thinking Miami
The team to beat is Indiana….Being the defending champion gives them that distinction until someone else dethrones them.
Everyone else can be seen as contenders to do so…..some will have better odds than others….
Idk why my buckeyes are favored to win a natty. We lost so many defensive players. And also our offensive line was cheeks and they all are back....maybe theyll be better...but we replaced so much.
Because Ohio state just does that year in and year out. Do you not remember wat ya’ll lost last year to the draft and still backfilled tremendously? I’m not worried about Ohio state I think ya’ll will be just fine
You're not a fan keep up with your team we had the best off season adding 14 experienced players and bringing back elite experience players and loaded up on tje staff are you okay? Do you not keep up with your team? Nobody is as deep as OSU, this team is more deeper then 24 national championship team and more experienced then 25 team, 26 team simply should not have any weaknesses
We reload period
Carson beck yanked that spoon out of miamis mouth😂
Everyone knew it was a gamble that could backfire. And it did in exactly the way they worried it would.
The most important thing to consider when talking about Miami is, that they have only been serious and spending real money on football again for about 5 years now. They were spending less on entire coaching staffs than the big schools were spending on just a HC alone. Those days are over. So in 5 years Miami goes from irrelevant to playing for a National Title....
State with the best football. Indiana, who'd of thought.
Tell me how Oregon’s schedule is different than Notre Dame’s?
You still have to play the games. We shall see.
"I have learned my lesson about doubting Indiana" then does this. Looking awfully daunted here Pate
You think they’re just going to rattle off last years run? With what was lost? He kept the doubt up way longer than he should have last year. But what you’re talking about here is just logic and reasoning. Not saying they’re going to fall off a cliff but color me a doubter that they run that performance last year back.
@williamwhitfield6225well it is pretty hard to improve on the first 16-0 season in College football history. Cig gets the benefit of the doubt, period.
@Tyler-oh2zyYeah I’m not mad at that statement. I’m not putting that expectation out there because it’s crazy. But if he were to make a run back to the natty even with a L and we’re having the goat discussion
@Tyler-oh2zy I just don’t think anyone in this era can just be chalked up as the team to beat. Cig doesn’t play on the field and was perfectly capable of having a team lose in the playoffs the year before. He’s probably the best coach in the country but he’s not magic
@williamwhitfield6225IU lost alot, but are bringing back a ton, and on paper have better players transfer in all over the field! IU might lose a game in the regular season, and might not win the Championship, but they are not going away!!!
ALL in on Oregon
I’m biased but the buckeyes are THE team to beat. That’s first talking point on any teams record if they beat them and the best win for every team if they can pull it off.
As a Hurricanes fan can never count out Ohio State but they have a tough schedule this year
Hook Em' HORNS 🤘🏾
Texasis stacked but as a Hurricanes fan I'll put our roster against anybody Miami is loaded!!! Maybe we're see Texas in the playoffs
@s@stormwarning522if they come out 10/11 win team that’s a scary team.
@Boojoe-z2li’m nervous about texas game for sure. Still feels like it’s the Buckeyes game to lose.
Hey Josh you got ND up top as one of the fav's and they were deservedly left out in 2025 then Georgia who cheated blantly in 2025 and bought there spot in the sec playoffs just to loose there first game. But no mention of the 7th game team on ND's schedual BYU who was kept out of the playoffs by the sec in 2025 and have 90% retention and a Hiesman QB also...So I ask you why and how much are you getting paid to continue putting BYU down...
No mention of the undisputed #1 team when in any other year Ohio state last year would’ve been
Rocco Brecht Heisman winner
Amazing how these national people sleep on Ole Miss. They have the #1 QB, #1 RB, and by far the best kicker. Just get to the 40 and they got points. Plus a much improved defense. Do have a much harder schedule but Trinidad 🇹🇹 with another year and Lacy in the backfield will be awesome to watch.
Not the best qb 😂
Caesar's has ND as the favorite at +600 with OSU at +675. Must have been like chewing dog doo for Pate to admit ND is one of the favorites although he spent much more time on Miami than ND. Miami lost a ton of production. 2/3 of their starters are gone.
If we just look at what Vegas is saying, they think Texas is by far the best team. Teams like notre dame with a 99.9% of making the playoffs barely get better odds
No weakness when you don’t play any competition …. (Notre Dame) let ND play a Conf. Schedule, maybe?
They play 10 P4 conference teams on their schedule.
Every year.
It's Ohio State #1. 1st year QB, two freshman running backs, no offensive coordinator in the end, no field goal kicker, inexperienced o line and still only lost to the 2 title teams in close games. Imagine what they will do now that all those issues are addressed
The team to beat will be a team with a ton of money to spend on NIL and coaches.
LETS GO IRISH ! WE ARE GOING TO RUN THE CHART. NO STOPPING US THIS YEAR FELLAS.
Miami is the team to beat. They're last years national title contender and they are arguably a better equipped team than last year's championship run. The defense may have taken a slight drop, we'll see, but their offense took a huge leap forward. These guys are hungry too...watch out for the Hurricanes.
The team to beat should be the one who won the national championship
Not when they lose a ton of players
Notre Dame should just join the frickin ACC at this point 1:38 what the actual f....
how about sybau
Why? Then everyone would REALLY whine about their easy schedule.
@Necile2 dude.... Their schedule is ALREADY 50 percent ACC.... Why don't they have 6 SEC schools on their schedule? I'd LOVE to hear the answer to that. They are basically playing an ACC conference schedule as a Non conference member. I mean, just LOOK at their schedule.
@ShadowTwister28 First of all, Necile is hardly a "dude's" name. Secondly, the SEC is too chicken to schedule ND, and the SEC is not much better than the ACC. ND has played TAMU the last two years and played Arkansas this past year. Oh, and they kicked Georgia's ass in the Sugar Bowl.
😂😂😂😂 first off, Sorry, ma'am. And secondly, respectfully, you're out of your mind lady😂😂 @Necile2 I've never heard such lunacy
The team to beat is Indiana
Stop 🛑 Smoking 🚭 Crack 🤣
GO CANES🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Pate clearly plans to pick against Indiana at every reasonable opportunity.
ND running game will be different. Miami has better rb. Wr and qb than ND. Our d line will be better than ND too
11\7 I will be there. Go Irish
ND's QB is already in Heisman contention, so quit with the homerism. ND's RBs are pretty darned good, too, and the portal was mighty good to ND regarding the DL. ND also picked up two five-star WRs from OSU, and their secondary is going to be ridiculous. It will be a good game, but you need to be realistic about any perceived advantages.
Hope you watch the beat down in South Bend this year
"what about georgia?"
SEC school, doesn't mean as much.
Probably us
My biggest concern is kicking and running back we lost two best running backs
@FrustratedNotredamefan3736 We've got some other really good RBs. It depends on the OL.
Oregon has the roster to win a national championship. We'll see if we don't have bad luck for the third year in a row
I am hopeful, but I’ve gotten used to winning 10-12 games and then blowing it in the playoff. I feel like every year is someone else’s “magical year.” One of these days Oregon will pop, but I not gonna put money on it for any specific year
@lukemay9382 Oregon only got blown out against Indiana because of injuries and the stupid transfer portal. The timelines for college football are stupid.
Could it be that Dan Lanning isn’t the answer? He was exposed twice last season by IU.
@rickschilling7390 No, he wasn't. Oregon and Indiana were tied until halfway through the 4th quarter in their first game and Oregon lost 12 guys that were in the rotation in the week before the Indiana game due to injury and the transfer portal. Oregon had to use RB3 and RB5 and then pull some guys off the defense to act as backup RBs. Oregon also lost a big chunk of their 2nd string defense.
They better do something with all that money Knight be spending.
Notre Dame?!?! 😂
Donte Moore is not the guy.
I honestly don't understand why ND is the odds-on favorite to win the natty, makes no sense to me. They'll make the playoffs because they have a cupcake schedule, but they will get destroyed by real teams.
I know. It will be a repeat of when Notre Dame made the 2024 CFP and beat cupcake teams like Indiana, Georgia, and Penn St. Talk about bad teams, those are three of the worst teams ever. And then Notre Dame goes to the national championship and gets absolutely destroyed by OSU. If you don’t believe me just look at how much they were losing to OSU with less than 3mins to play. It was 31-23. Completely annilhated. And look how bad Notre Dame got beat by Miami and Texas A&M in 2025. They got absolutely blown out in those games. And of course Notre Dame’s 2026 schedule is loaded with cupcakes like SMU, Wisconsin, Miami, BYU, and a horrible Navy team that had one of its worst seasons in 2025 and is expected to repeat that horrible season in 2026. And if you need more proof than that, just look at the cupcakes Notre Dame plays in 2027, 2028, and 2029. Awful teams like Texas, BYU, Clemson, Miami, VT, Alabama, Auburn, Miami, Pitt, Arkansas, and Georgia Tech. What a joke. Call me when they play real national powerhouse teams that everyone else plays like Furman, Wofford, The Citadel, Kent St, Grambling, Eastern Illinois, Mercer, and of course the MIGHTY CHATTANOOGA MOCS!!!
So willfully ignorant. Do you have dementia? Two years ago they literally stomped Indiana and Georgia and beat a very talented Penn State team in the playoffs. Then last year they barely lost to the #2 team in the country on the road and were a dropped snap away from winning against Texas A&M. People like you are just a waste of brain cells because you hardly ever use them
I see you’re a Georgia fan. You calling your Dawgs a cupcake team when ND laid the pipe against them in 2025? Georgia is literally inferior to ND in everything including football 😭😭
@bigman7635LOL RIIIIIIIIGHT
Sorry lost all credibility when you said the sec was still the better deeper conference when the facts clearly state you are wrong.. so much for you relying on the analytics 📈
Indiana is the team to beat- they’re the defending national champions
With their old roster, sure
JP, again.. if you're gonna Dog ND sched.. then you better put, Ore, IU, ol Miss, Miami w/o ND on sched it's a joke, TT, PSU are a embarrassing... but yet Crickets .. lazy take Pate..
The B1G is 10-7 the last two years against the best of the SEC. The worst team in the B1G just won it ALL. B1G owns the last THREE national championships. There are zero weak schedules in the B1G.
ND Join a conference, then you'll be legitimate.
It's Indiana
“Uga doesn’t have bad players” yet lose to Alabama and go 0-2 in 12 team era 😂😂😂😂
LSU and Tech???? Give me a fuckin break
Texas A&M is the team to beat..you will see
I is going to be better than last year this year. If any of the so called elite programs take Indiana as a joke it will be a repeat of last year. IU will dominate and beat the breaks off of teams
Go Ducks🦆!
Indiana non conference schedule is a joke again. They get Ohio State and USC at home ( 2 toughest games) then at Michigan ( could be tough) and at Washington ( above average team) so atleast Indiana has to put their big boy pants on 3 times ( maybe four if Washington is good) so that’s tougher thsn last season when they had at Oregon ( very tough game) and Michigan ( which had a true freshman Quarterback who was not coached up or ready) Big 10 is so top heavy with more awful teams than very good teams ( Purdue, Rutgers, Northwestern ) awful (Minnesota and Nebraska mediocre at best)
The Pate State!!
Everyone is secondary to IU until proven otherwise.
Sure. 1st title ever. Wow. No such thing as a defending champion. Why? Because you don't get any points when next season starts.
Tell me about that .430 winning percentage since 1886 or the 3 conference championships you've won since then.
In other words, history is not in your favor. I get it though--you have to root for something. Too bad it's a mascot that noone can name.
@wesleygary6651You dont know what a bison is? Its another name for a buffalo!!!IU reloaded and have half of their starts returning!!!
@chriswolf1265 I don't know what a Hoosier is.
That's what i said. Dont' bother me with another name for a team with a 140 year history of being sub .500. It's Friday evening little girl. Go be a little girl somewhere else.
@wesleygary6651So recent history is irrelevant but ancient history is? Does Nebraska or even Minnesota have a better shot than Indiana because of their history 30+ years ago?
@CokeBoi6969 Either/or. Indiana does not have the depth to repeat what they achieved last year. The Heisman winner is gone, running back, all but one starting wide receiver, the QB coach miracle worker for Mendoza is now in the NFL....as for 'ancient' history well that's obvious. 17 transfers coming to Bloomington? 17? I'll call it FSU north until someone can prove that an entire side of the ball (plus 6 guys in reserve) can win a natty. It didn't work at FSU under Norvell and you can be sure that if Mendoza had a season ending injury in the Big 10 title game Indiana wouldn't have been allowed into the CFP. Everytime some team wins a title out of nowhere their fans always claim it's just the start of sustained success. Everytime. Well it just doesn't turn out that way--and history agrees.
If Texas corrects its offensive line watch out.
No Bandwagon Riders 💯😒
Josh who?
Lmao,why is Georgia being discussed if ole miss isn’t, I don’t have a prob with ole miss not being the team to beat, however, if Georgia is in the convo,the better team which is ole miss, should be to, obv big school big name bias in this video.
Cup cake ND
Can I say Indiana?
IU last year is up there with the greatest teams ever, they are the team to beat.
Okay snowflake Pate...since you won't commit to a favorite, I'll help you out. INDIANA will beat Notre Dame in the CFP National Championship next January.
😂😂😂 neither of those teams sniff a natty.
Not this time
Leave No Doubt 😤 ☘️
The single handed most delusional fan base of all of college football. The Dallas cowboys of CFP
@b@braisedin unlike the Dallas Cowboys they did make it to the big game
There's plenty of doubt they'll need to get rid of
@braisedin very apt comparison: won a bunch of championships when we still watched movies on VHS and have been coasting off that and nothing else since then
@braisedinso please elaborate how we are delusional? Before this year we as a fanbase in totality have never said we were the best in the country nor has everyone else. This is literally the first year since I've been born that we have been considered the favorites to win it so how is that delusional? Please explain since you know so much buddy 🙃
Bold take Indiana vs Miami rematch! I will take Miami this time around though.
I'm all in on the Oregon Ducks.
Remember how much he was wrong last year. This is how he makes his money. He doesn't have a real job!
Oklahoma, Ohio State, Georgia and all those who also beat Alabama! teams to beat!
do you just refuse to ever give Indiana any credit/look? You self admitted you were wrong every single time picking against Indiana this past season, why are you refusing to learn.
Miami winning it all
Ohio State will be better than 2024 team
It's all about The U
🙌🧡💚
We will see y’all in Death Valley GO TIGERS🐅🐯💜🧡🐯🐅🧡💜
It will be 23 more years for "The U" and another BIG10 team will slap em down again. LOL😄
23 years of irrelevance…
@Boom65-f4mu sound like a bozo
Pate picked against Indiana all year. All year he was wrong. He doesn't know football. Cignetti lost 2 games his first year- the national champion on the road, the national runner up on the road. He hasn't lost since. Indiana is more talented this year overall than last year. Pate? No mention of Indiana. Pate is the Cramer of college football . Pick against Pate and win. Every time.
Not even April, yet CFB consensus for who is number one…LOL. I’ll simply posit that neither ND or Oregon will be at the top at end of season 26-27.
Your an idiot Go Ducks 🦆
2015-2018 it was all Bama and Clemson. Then LSU comes in and blows it all up. Maybe they do it this year. They have the players and their best coach since Saban.
Norte dame is always and i mean always over rated
Hook Em' HORNS 🤘🏾💯🔥👍🏾 🏈
If an SEC team won you'd automatically put that team as the prohibitive favorite.. giving them grace a saying since they were the champion we need to give them grace and someone has to beat the champ to be the champ... When big ten wins 3 years in a row .. your favorite to win was always SEC or not the same team... You guys are terrible and it's obvious who pays your bills... That contract makes you say things that contradict what you generally say other years about sec conference... I see you... And I stopped listening to this insufferable coverage and lies to protect the brand
Don’t forget to throw the undefeated, defending national champions into the mix as well
When they return absolutely no production?
@willhunter7363 production isn't the end-all-be-all but point taken
@crazyroughrider Yeah, it's not like they aren't going to be contending for the playoffs, but they aren't the "team to beat"
Buckeye fan myself and have tremendous respect for what Indiana now is with Cignetti but no one not even the most do hard fans should feel like it’s even close to repeatable THIS season the Hoosiers are a main stay as long as cig is there now but there’s 0 chance they have the same success this next season all that being said hopefully all of the big 10 is in the cfp🤷🏼♂️
Notre Dame. It's always Notre Dame. The cards are stacked in their favor. Top 12 auto bid, etc...
Notre Dame has "salvation" via the transfer portal. Touchdown Jesus works in mysterious ways.
Let's "join hands" and pray about it.
Good thing no other team in CFB uses the transfer portal.
ND's schedule is all time pathetic. Other than Miami game ND will be double digit favorite in every game. They don't play a conf champ game. They walk into the playoffs with home field advantage and a heisman trophy. The playoffs will be brutal for them...
Everyone said the same thing in 2024. They managed the playoffs just fine. And BYU and SMU will probably also be ranked, so their schedule isn't as easy as some other teams' schedules.
It’s great to be a Miami Hurricane! 🙌🧡💚
We will see y’all in Death Valley GO TIGERS🐯🐅💜🧡🐅🐯🧡💜
Do you play for the team?
Go ducks 🦆
GO Chickens 🐥😂😂😂
GO Chickens 🐥😂😂😂
I want ND to be out half way through the year strictly cuz of the bowl game thing. Whining loses respect, nothing more. Play games and prove your worth. As far as getting screwed out of the playoff goes, ask FSU how they feel about getting left out…. They still played a bowl game that year… just sayin.
And ND not playing in a bowl game affected you exactly how? Why do you care so much?
You will ok sweetie
Why on gods green earth are we talking about notre dame? They’re a literal embarrassment to CFB 😂
Not nearly as much as you are.
@Necile2I’m an embarrassment to CFB? I’m involved with CFB? I wasn’t aware, rub your two brain cells together and explain please 😂
@shenanigansx1888 Because you're on here running your stupid, stupid mouth and being an embarrassment to fans everywhere with your unhinged jealousy and butt-hurt.
The last team to beat the Hoosiers is the team that has owned the state of Indiana in football and my home state but I bleed blue and gold and I guarantee that N/D has a tougher schedule than 90 percent of the conference teams and The Fighting Irish have something to prove for being screwed outta the playoffs last season and #13 is going to show everyone that he's the QB that should be hyped up. Go Irish ☘️
Texas wins the NC this year, that’s my prediction
If notre dame wins it all this year I will whole heartedly believe in sports being pre determined. Such a spoiled brat of a team. Join a conference and quit being a cry baby. I love Marcus freeman, however the fan base makes this team miserable to hear about.
They have the easiest schedule and the only team in college football guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. 8 of the teams on their schedule this year had 8 or more losses last year.
Why should they join a conference?
@charlesyarbrough2619 their schedule is not easier than TTU or Miami’s, both teams respected contenders because they wear a patch on their jersey. It’s idiotic
@charlesyarbrough2619 They are only guaranteed a spot if they are ranked in the top 12. Gee, what a concept that a top 12 team get a spot in a 12-team CFP. Get over your unhinged NDDS.
@Necile2, so you understand how this is gonna work. If ND is ranked 12th. They will knock out the team ranked 10th. The 11th and 12th spot is held, legally by committee and playoff contract, for the hughest group of 5 and highest conference champion. So ND would take a spot from someone ranked higher than them. No, that doesn't make sense. There is no NDDS, it's fairness in the sport. Tell me that TTU and Miami has 8 teams on their schedule that had 8 or more losses last year. ND does.
Texas will never win the Natty with Sark at the helm. He is too bad at late game playcalling and management
Unfortunately, there is a high likelihood that we will never see a full season of college football. Sorry for the inconvenience but Bible prophecy is soon coming to pass. Better unplug from Babylon now!
Boomer