Is ND hurt by drop in rankings?

By Justin Albers
basketballss132002@yahoo.com
INDIANAPOLIS- On Tuesday it the AP top 25 polls were announced and Notre Dame was no longer #2. Notre Dame has now dropped to #4 in the country despite an opening day win. Texas and USC were the 2 teams that passed the Irish, and the question is how bad does it hurt?
Personally, this drop in the polls hurts me. There is no way in the world that Texas and USC should have passed Notre Dame. When you look down the schedule from the first week of the season you see names like Northern Illinois and North Texas and Arkansas, and teams that will never find their way into a bowl game this season. Then you look at Notre Dame's schedule and you see a Georiga Tech, Penn State, Michigan, what more could you ask for? Notre Dame is one of the only teams in the country that actually start their season in week one and not week 5 when the conference play starts. Let's look at Texas first. They played North Texas on Saturday, and granite they won 56-7, but North Texas? Notre Dame could put their worst 11 players on the field and they would beat North Texas by double figures. You have just got to be joking me. Then you look at USC and they played Arkansas. The Razorbacks have a little more to offer than North Texas, but to move up 3 spots in the rankings is unbelievable. It is obvious what the Associated Press wants, and that is a rematch of last years national championship game. How come Ohio State didn't get moved down? They played a Northern Illinois team and won by 23 points. I don't understand how Notre Dame gets penalized for playing good competition and beating them, but whatever. Just wait until the people are not deciding the ranks and the BCS computer is on the job. We are not going to have people playing favorites this year, I am just not going to tolerate that.