Best crop of freshman in a long time?

[UcMiami]

Notre Dame has not had a particularly tough schedule thus far, but you're over the top calling it horrible. Sagarin ranks Notre Dame's schedule 35th (and UConn's 40th), RPI ranks ND's SOS 16th (UConn's 10th), Massey had ND's SOS at 8th (UConn's 1st). Personally, I think UConn's schedule has been far more difficult than Notre Dame's thus far*, but you make it sound like ND's SOS is ridiculously weak, and it has not been.

(*Most SOS calculations undervalue games against top 10 opponents.)

Agree - ND has definitely not gone 'bottom of the barrel' like Baylor did with their OOC. My biggest gripe about SOS calculations is that for a top 10 team, any game against a team ranked below 50 should be counted the same, and probably any team between 30 and 50 should be counted the same. Instead if you play team 112 and another team played team 250 - you have a far superior SOS without having played a serious game.
It is like ranking recruiting classes - recruit number 52 probably has a very slim chance of actually being better/having a greater impact than recruit #112.