I would say in no order bama, Oregon, a&m, USC, Georgia, fsu, lsu, Clemson, florida and ksu would all be favored in a neutral field game against nd or osu. Based on the way rankings are made, of course nd and osu both deserve to be top 5 teams but in actual terms there are 8 or 9 teams I'd take over both. Possibly Stanford as well despite nd's heads up home ot win. Nd had great year and obviously did a lot to help current and future hauls. I'm not saying they aren't a good team I'm just saying there are a lot of teams who could either beat bama or give them a game and it's obvious nd was never going to do either. If osu was eligible they would have played nd for the national championship.