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I don't disagree that the college football landscape is in a state of upheaval (thanks in part to the current moronic committee), but declining the opportunity to get extra practices, see how young players react to game situations, acclimate new coaches into systems, etc., etc., is both shortsighted and weak, IMO. As far as timing goes, I doubt many people want to see bowl games happening in the first week of December.
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Notre Dame is accustomed to always getting their way. They even had a special tie-in with the BCS. Notre Dame's SOS was #44 according to ESPN, should've played a tougher schedule.
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Andrea AdelsonDec 7, 2025, 03:36 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua told ESPN that the program is in utter disbelief and shock after being left out of the 12-team College Football Playoff on Sunday. As a result, the Fighting Irish said the team has made the decision to not participate in a bowl game this season. "As a team, we've decided to withdraw our name from consideration for a bowl game following the 2025 season," said a statement credited to the 2025 Notre Dame Football Team. "We appreciate all the support from our families and fans, and we're hoping to bring the 12th national title to South Bend in 2026." The Irish had been ranked in the top 10 of every CFP rankings release until Sunday, when they were placed No. 11 and were the first team out. Miami, which beat Notre Dame in Week 1, moved ahead of the Irish in the final rankings to take the final at-large berth. Bevacqua expressed frustration with the entire process, telling ESPN's Jen Lada that the team felt as if it had the rug pulled out from under them, in part because they believed they were well situated to make the field because of where it had been previously ranked. In the first CFP rankings release on Nov. 4, Notre Dame was No. 10 and Miami was No. 18. The Irish moved up to No. 9 for a few weeks before dropping back to No. 10 last week. Miami had slowly moved up the rankings and was No. 12 last week. Bevacqua told ESPN that any rankings ahead of the final ones are a "farce and total waste of time." Adding to the confusion for Notre Dame was that neither they nor Miami played this weekend. CFP selection committee chair Hunter Yurachek said Miami's 27-24 head-to-head victory against Notre Dame on Aug. 31 wasn't a deciding factor until the Hurricanes jumped BYU in the CFP rankings and were evaluated side-by-side with the Irish. Yurachek also said he encouraged committee members on Saturday night to go back and watch the Notre Dame-Miami game from Labor Day weekend. "Once we moved Miami ahead of BYU, then we had that side-by-side comparison that everybody had been hungering for," Yurachek said. "You look at those two teams on paper, and they are almost equal in their schedule strength, their common opponents, the results against common opponents. "But the one metric we had to fall back on, again, was the head to head." Notre Dame and Miami finished with the same 10-2 records and had similar results against common opponents. As part of a memorandum of understanding signed last year that guarantees that the field will have at least 12 teams in 2026 and beyond, Notre Dame would be guaranteed a spot if it finishes in the top 12 starting next year. By not making it this year, Notre Dame lost out on a $4 million payday for just making the field. All 12 schools that make the CFP receive that amount, but the difference is that the Fighting Irish, as an independent, doesn't have to split it with conference members. In addition, under a deal agreed to in March, there will be guaranteed CFP spots for the conference champions from the ACC, Big Ten, SEC and Big 12 and the highest-ranked Group of 5 champion, sources told ESPN. If that had been in place for this season, ACC champion Duke would have made the field and Sun Belt champ James Madison, a second Group of 5 representative, would have been left out. Alabama pushed past Notre Dame last week to No. 9 and did not drop after losing 28-7 in the the SEC championship game to Georgia, staying in the 12-team field. "Their strength of schedule was the highest in the top 11, and felt like in spite of their performance yesterday in the conference championship, they deserve to stay within that nine spot," Yurachek said. ESPN's Heather Dinich contributed to this report.
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Yeah, that's fair. I'm not exactly heartbroken for Vandy, but they do have a better sob story than Notre Dame. Vandy went 10-2 in the SEC. That's supposed to be enough. The fact that it isn't is really just variance. Most years, it is. That's very different from Notre Dame trying to stack the deck and it backfiring on them. And sitting out the bowl game is a bitchass move.
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This is bottom-feeder, subterranean basement dwelling retarded shit to give them anything. Their relevance to CFB in general is almost zero. Outside of South Bend, who the fuck watches them? Don't get me wrong, I did watch them vs aggy and Miami, but that was it. Even with Jeremyah Love I still couldn't force myself to watch. They play retreads and microbial shit of the CFB world.
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holy shit, LOL.
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woa woa woa homie. Notre Dame and Navy play and will always play for a specific reason and its absolutely the right thing to do. Learn history of college football and don't post dumb shit. Notre Dame more than likely would not be what they are without Navy. JESUS
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I'm still amazed Charlie Strong beat ND...
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#7 the the composite of all the computer rankings. https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf&top=-9 And, the computers don't know that; Miami had hacked the snap count, Texas A&M had a tell on run vs pass from quarterback Carr's stance. Neither was likely to be true in the future.
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The announcers kind of talked themselves in to accepting the idea of a dual penalty which was the by the book result, but I'm glad they didn't because it would have created a controversy and like you said it wouldn't have changed anything. Zach Brown would have wined about it for the rest of time.
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Do you really need an explanation?
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You must've not been around during the 2010 season, because there were many unenjoyable seconds then.
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No, I'm totally fine starting Lacy, Lockett, Ffrench, McCutcheon, etc. I don't know who "y'all" are, but I just want a game and whomever starts, starts. I would be more excited to see our young WR's actually get playing time against a quality opponent.
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after standing down midweek it would be unlike cdc to do anything right now while the iron is hot as i posted elsewhere there are a dozen-odd sec/b1g teams with current domer contracts and the best move, the right move, would be a surprise attack where all of the schools, without consultation with their conferences, launch a nuclear first strike in a combined press release announcing the cancellation of all of the contracts effective immediately, with no announced terms of contract restoration, and no mention whatsoever of domer's celebration of special-ness de-platform domer
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CHIEF started following 2025-26 CFP General Discussion
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After watching all of the conference championship matchups yesterday, Indiana, tOSU, and Georgia look to all be legit. They all three pass the eyeball test. I think the eventual champion will come from one of those three teams, and would beat any team from Tech on up by at least two touchdowns. I haven't watched much of Oregon, but Indiana went to their house and whipped them. CHIEF
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This was a bone thrown to ND by SEC/Big Ten to get them to join in. Hot tip, anything making college football shittier is coming from a mix of the SEC, Big Ten, and ESPN. Its also meaningless, did you not just watch the selection? The committee will just drop whoever they want to 13 with no explanation.
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you do...see above. Join a conference and beat aggy and you are in. stop scheduling service academies
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I'm 100% good with using it like an NFL preseason and starting KJ Lacey, Simon, Ffrench, Lockett, etc. But we know that's not what the lot of y'all want. You want 1s vs 1s and to win.
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Those were road losses vs final top 15 teams though. That Bama game was closer than the final score too. Their SOS is signficiantly tougher than Miami and ND, so it really doesn't make much sense that they weren't even in the same conversation.
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You're in good company, ND
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if it goes to 16, they will demand to be in if they are top 20.
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Pretty busy with all the people who say that ND gets preferential treatment. 🖕
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Impressive D, Bears.
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our upcoming series with them needs to be canceled tomorrow.
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