DonShula84
Sporty Don
There has been some talk that the Rose Bowl would take the Irish if Ohio State were to lose to Michigan and USC ended up in the championship game," Catlett said. "I don't know how they'd feel about a Michigan-Notre Dame rematch. It's hard to believe they'd break their ties with the Pac-10."
But if Cal loses to USC Saturday, it's going to be difficult for the Pac-10 runner-up -- either Cal or Oregon, to meet the requisite requirement of being in the BCS Top 14. Likewise, Wisconsin, even at 11-1, would be left on the outside
Seems to me like that Rose Bowl would be OSU vs ND and a Michigan vs USC championship game.
"The bowls don't care who the best team is outside of 1 vs. 2," Catlett said. "Outside of that, the rest of us are trying to get good, deserving teams that put people in the stands, give us good television ratings so that our title sponsor is happy and so we can write those big checks to the schools.
"The beauty of Notre Dame is the same thing with the Dallas Cowboys. Everybody in America that's a college football fan either loves Notre Dame or hates Notre Dame. Nobody has a neutral opinion about Notre Dame. And from a bowl's perspective, what better scenario can you have?
"People who love them are going to watch them on TV, and the people who want to see them get beat are going to watch them on TV. Either way, they get the highest ratings. And that's why whenever I get a chance to put them in my bowl game, I do it."
I just recently started considering if ND would get a BCS game if they lost another close game to USC, this article seems to think it's almost certain.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061116/NDSports02/611160347/-1/NDSPORTSApparently the scenarios that could see the BCS fifth-ranked Irish (9-1) fall completely out of the BCS have dwindled to one.
Losing Saturday to Army (3-7).