Mike Ryan Ruiz

Strength of schedule.

Notre Dame was right there.

They lost a head-to-head with Miami, and they didn't have the common opponent deal that Miami had over Alabama.

If you had any foresight, like we've been telling you for weeks and weeks and weeks, this was going to potentially happen.

They should have been more prepared.

I don't get it.

But I do think that you brought up some good points.

Zaz, where I think you were going as it pertains to BYU is I hear all the arguments, and you could have argued maybe they should have been included in the field that was in.

But it was out there for BYU.

They knew the stakes.

They were outside looking in when that game was going to play.

Even if they remain the same, they're still out.

Yeah, so they knew that they had to win that game to get in because it was an automatic qualifier, and they knew the deal going into it.

Kirk Herbstreit echoed this point.

That Tuesday show seemed so stupid because

I can understand a fan for Notre Dame being like, how the hell did – what happened over the weekend?

If this was a Miami-Notre Dame thing the entire time, why didn't you – they actually said the opposite.

They told us that Miami and Notre Dame were never in direct comparison.

Now, the last few days, they opened the door to that, which I guess Notre Dame should have been prepared for that more.

Why?