I despise the preferential treatment that ND perpetually receives. The fawning over them when they're good from the national media is nauseating as well. That said, I will be cheering wildly for them to win this game. I will cheer for ATM to win one game and one game only - whenever they play OU. That's it. They're going to run their mouths like the idiots they are, sun, rain, sleet or snow, but it's 10 times worse when they win anything worth a shit, like a game in South Bend.
As to the premise of a loss to ATM putting ND out of the playoff conversation, sure, there's a silver lining there, I guess. Of course, I may have bad news for you - if ND is 10-2 at the end of the year, the committee will somehow find a way to justify putting them in and pissing all of us off.
Texas just needs to take care of its own business.
Regardless, to each their own on how they root.
Carr looked pretty good against a top 10 team on the road. If you don't think ND has a QB after that performance, I'd hate to hear about you think about, ahem, ... other programs and their new QBs.