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Truth about Notre Dame football seen in records
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The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
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January 12, 2003
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Copyright informationCopyright 2003 The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I am writing in response to Dr. (Jeffrey) Huettemann's outburst in
Tuesday's paper ("Truth about Notre Dame football seen in bowl loss,"
YourViews, Jan. 7).
Before the season began, Notre Dame still had its history, yet the
Irish were ranked behind Boise State. Going into the bowl game, Notre
Dame was ranked 11th because they only lost two games all season.
When they were nine games into the season and still undefeated,
neither the coaches nor sportswriters had Notre Dame picked No. 1.
However, the majority of computers did.
You see, computers don't rank based on popularity and bias like
coaches, who obviously have an incentive to pick teams in their own
conference. Computers look at ...
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