All Notre Dame can do right now is wait for the conference championships to be awarded. After that, it'll know who it's playing in the first round of the College Football Playoff. What happens after that is anyone's guess at the moment.

After being seeded seventh last week and matched against 10th-seeded SMU, Notre Dame could move up to the No. 6 seed in the CFP bracket this week.

Because it’s my No. 1 seed, I’ll crown Charlie Weis’ first team as my “national champion” in this all-Notre Dame field. The best quarterback with the best wide receivers wins out. Debate that if you’d like. But the bigger takeaway should be the current Notre Dame team rates as the program’s best shot at winning it all in a decade. Maybe longer.