If it looked like I was speaking directly to you or lumping you in with others, I apologize. However, I did quote Boomer, and therefore I was speaking to him, not you. I was merely pointing out the contradiction between your argument and the arguments that ND was a top 5 pick. That doesn't mean I felt that you contradicted yourself personally.
You have a valid point inasmuch as some of the teams with high rankings when they played ND ended up not so high by year's end. On the other hand, Boomer has a point that that does not necessarily mean that the teams were mistakenly ranked that high at the time, it just means that by the end they were not the same team as they were considered to be back when they played ND, and part of the reason being ND's beating them, as well as other myriad reasons.
You brought up the right point, it just wasn't a winning point.