[Cactus Jack]

That game was a decade ago with a completely different college football environment.  ND has money, SEC type money, and they get to keep all the money.

I get that, but it's still going to take more than one championship that they haven't won yet for me to consider them as being the "big dog" when the SEC has won 6 of the last 11 and the Big Ten has a chance to have won the last two with Ohio State getting their second.

I'll be for Notre Dame, but I'd imagine that they come in as a 3-5 point underdog.

If they roll up lots of money from multiple appearances, the game definitely changes. Getting to the final is that first stepping stone and winning it is the next, but it's going to take awhile and if they really take off, everyone else will try to throw out some roadblocks.