[bob]

I really don’t understand why people have problems with Cincinnati’s ranking. They are #2 in the AP because they started #7 and teams above them lost and moving up is how it works. But outside of beating ND*, who exactly on this list of murders row impressed you:

4-5 Miami of Ohio?
3-5 FCS Murray State?
2-6 Indiana?
3-5 Temple?
5-3 UCF?
2-6 Navy?
1-7 Tulane?

* - I’m guessing most of you didn’t watch the ND game. Kudos for winning and all, but they had only two drives of any length, their other points coming off unforced turnovers. Also, very likely ND wins that game if stubborn Brian Kelly switched QBs earlier in the game so they didn’t have a statue in the pocket.

On a related note, ND is really not any good this year. Yeah, they have won the rest of their games, but their opponents haven’t been that great either. To his credit, Kelly has gotten to the point where he pretty much always beats teams he should. Just rarely wins a big game.