uNDefeated

I am currently following NCAA football and of course I've been rooting for the Florida State Seminoles, but I have also been keeping a close eye on the fighting Irish of Notre Dame. I'm from Illinois and I have a couple of friends who go to Notre Dame in South bend Indiana. These friends of mine are making it very clear that they are"uNDefeated" (as they like to use to ND symbol in the word) and that they believe that their school's team is better then mine.
Every week I've been cheering for the FSU Seminoles to win and hoping that the ND Fighting Irish would lose to one of the easy opponents that they've been playing all year. I've been unsuccessful with this wishful thinking lately but the Irish have been in some pretty close games that could have gone either way, but they somehow seem to manage to sneak away with a last minute win every time. I'm hoping that their luck runs out soon when they have to play USC as their schedule comes to an end because then I will be able to say that their team has the same amount of losses as mine (If FSU wins out the rest of the season).
Notre Dame is currently ranked number 3 in the BCS standings and Florida State is ranked 10th. A lot of sports analysts are saying that ND will not get a shot at the national title unless Kansas State (ranked 1st) or Oregon (ranked 2nd) lose a game. I was pretty excited when I heard this because I don't think that these two teams will lose any of the games they have left on their schedule, so even if ND goes undefeated they might not get a chance to play for the title. Hopefully Notre Dame loses to USC though, so they won't even be in the conversation of getting to play for the national title. I have my fingers crossed that they lose and go Noles!