If you’ve been on social media for any five second period during the last month, chances are you’ve seen something about “what quarantine house do you want to be in?”
Whether it’s been food or celebrities you’d rather live with, none held my interest.
Until now.
NBC Sports’ Douglas Farmer put out this tweet and boy oh boy do I have takes.
If #NotreDame games were somehow people … pick your quarantine house. pic.twitter.com/9MD9uYo6mY
— Douglas Farmer (@D_Farmer) April 13, 2020
The only correct answer is House 6. I will not accept any other. And here’s why.
The National Championship loss to Alabama was awful. But if you put in contest, was it really that bad or unexpected?
That team was good. But it was not great. That Alabama team was one of the best in college football history.
The Oklahoma win was the biggest road victory of the Kelly era on a Saturday night in Norman.
The 2017 Citrus Bowl saw the rise of Ian Book and one of the best plays in school history with Miles Boykin’s game-winning TD catch.
And both the Virginia and Virginia Tech games were a team fighting and clawing to dramatic wins.
The highs of those four games are valued more to me than the loss to Alabama.
Here’s how I’d break down the others.
House 1
The three USC victories were great (one a butt-kicking over Sam Darnold and the others were games with huge stakes), but the Bush Push (I see the Dwayne Jarrett catch in my nightmares) and the season-opening loss to South Florida ruin it for me.
House 2
Everyone loves a good Michigan win, but last year’s no-show against the Wolverines coupled with a loss to Duke. No thanks.
House 3
The Snow Bowl is my favorite game of all-time. The UCLA/Samardzija was one I remember jumping up and down in my apartment watching. The Game of the Century is probably my second-favorite game of all-time. BUT…
SEND THE BOSTON COLLEGE GAME ON THE NEXT ROCKET TO MARS, PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!
Also, that Nebraska game was a gut punch.
House 4
The wins were good wins, but not epic wins. Utah, Rutgers, Pitt and Navy don’t move the needle for me like others. And I’m sorry Charlie. I don’t care how bad your team is. You don’t lose to Navy at home.
House 5
Love the Stanford wins. 2018 was one of my sneaky favorite games of all-time with Dexter Williams’ return and what it meant for the rest of the season. Obviously the goal-line in 2012 was great.
But that 2015 Stanford game hurt. Bad. That 2015 Kizer-led squad went through a lot and was really, really good. That run by Kizer to put them up I thought had sealed their spot in the playoff.
And you don’t lose to Syracuse. Me meeting my wife later that night was the only good thing to come out of that day.