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It would be worse than last year. Everett Golson or Tommy Rees v. the Alabama D? Please. Not to mention the fact that the one of the main reasons ND's defense has been so good is their DL, which would be totally and completely negated by Alabama's beastly OL.

Seriously, it wouldn't be close. It would be a beatdown of epic proportions.

We held ND to 13 in SB after handing them the ball six times on TOs. Purdue, with one of the worst defenses in the B10, held them to 20 in SB. Alabama would beat them 42-0. And Gholson would be lucky to leave the game with just a mild concussion.

Um let me preface the question with another one....does anyone here think notre dame is better than Michigan, raise your hand.....I didn't think so. So they would do worse than we did. Complete domination in every single aspect of the game.

Again, if our defense can hold ND to 13 (even while the offense is consistently turning the ball over and giving up terrible field position) then I would expect Bama's D to hold ND to 7 or less.

We should have beaten ND at their house any ND fan that thinks otherwise is clueless. Alabama's second string would start the second half, it wouldn't even be close.

There is an outside shot we could get a rematch with ND in the Rose Bowl. If Alabama (SEC) and Oregon (P12) run the table and end up in the BCSCG, the Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl get the first picks from among the BCS eligible at large pool to replace them. The SEC will almost certainly have multiple BCS eligible teams (i.e. ranked in top 14) and will pick one of them. The P12, however, is a bit dicier. In addition to Oregon, there are three P12 teams currently ranked in the BCS top 25 ... #8 Oregon State (5-0), #10 USC (5-1) and #20 Stanford (4-2). All three still have to play Oregon and if Oregon runs the table that means all three will have at least one more loss. That will probably take Stanford out of contention for a BCS bowl entirely. And if USC picks up a third loss anywhere, they also likely would be out. For those reasons, my prediction right now is for us to meet Oregon State in the Rose Bowl. But if Oregon State also were to pick up a third loss somewhere along the way, that would free up the Rose Bowl to pick a team outside the P12 to replace Oregon (because no other P12 team would be BCS eligible). My guess is there would be a strong push for them to pick ND.* They could not pick an SEC team (only two per conference allowed), and I just can't see the Rose Bowl being excited by WVU. And no way will they pick a BE #2 or ACC #2 over ND. If Oklahoma comes in 2nd in the B12 and is BCS eligible, the Rose Bowl probably would pick them over ND to avoid the rematch. But otherwise there is a high likelihood ND would end up as the replacement for Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

* The last time ND played in the Rose Bowl was 1925.

The game would look like the first half of the Cowboys vs Little Giants game

I think they would agree to this IF we conceded that Notre Dame should have beaten Michigan last year in Ann Arbor for the first ever scheduled night game.

Bama would beat them by about 40

I would agree with that. We had a lot of breaks in that game. The one that I remember most was when Reese left the ball behind during his throwing motion.

I haven't seen any ND fans say we would beat Bama either. Think maybe OP is

Me too.