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1 hour ago, SarksJuggs said:

I mean what the fuck even is this sport anymore? 

this is fucking insane.  why on earth would any of the power 4 conferences be on board with this???

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no shit

who fucking signed this "MOU" ??????

it reeks of aggy declaring our first game back would be at pyle a year before the schedule was announced for this year

they are just declaring it to be so, publishing their terms of reality which everyone will abide because THEY ARE FUCKING SPECIAL

it is time to wage war on the golden calf

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8 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

this is fucking insane.  why on earth would any of the power 4 conferences be on board with this???

if it goes to 16, they will demand to be in if they are top 20.

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Just now, notre dame joe said:

Pretty busy with all the people who say that ND gets preferential treatment.  🖕

 

you do...see above.  Join a conference and beat aggy and you are in.  stop scheduling service academies

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8 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

this is fucking insane.  why on earth would any of the power 4 conferences be on board with this???

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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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

Posted
1 hour ago, Honeysucklerose said:


I enjoy every second of Longhorn football I can get

You must've not been around during the 2010 season, because there were many unenjoyable seconds then. 

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

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. 

Do you really need an explanation?

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2 hours ago, El Hornarino said:

Notre Dame AD isn't entirely wrong.  The weekly rankings and the whole committee process is a very bad joke.

More hilarious that they were up to #2 in Sagarin, #5 SP+, #4 FEI and got punched in the nuts.

Dave Chappelle Snl GIF by Saturday Night Live

 #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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1 minute ago, Bevo Num1 said:

You must've not been around during the 2010 season, because there were many unenjoyable seconds then. 

I'm still amazed Charlie Strong beat ND...

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2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

you do...see above.  Join a conference and beat aggy and you are in.  stop scheduling service academies

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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1 minute ago, notre dame joe said:

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.

holy shit, LOL.

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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. 
 

Maybe, hang with here, don't lose to mediocre teams like aggy and Miami and actually play someone with a pulse. Embarrassing. Crying over not going to the CFP because you lost back-to-back games against the only relevant names you scheduled. 

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    Andrea AdelsonDec 7, 2025, 03:36 PM ET

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        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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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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2 hours ago, ABSR said:

Bowl games are rewards for players,  and student organizations such as band, cheer etc.  But what bowls really get a team is 3 weeks of extra practice which those teams who don’t go to a bowl don’t get.   Helps set up next year and gets more practice for younger players.   Even if a lot of seniors opt out, still beneficial all around….so while I get teams with vacant coaching staffs maybe opting out, doing so in general just shows poor and emotional driven decision making.  

And the gift bag, kids at that age just love Pop-Tarts. 

 

Not unprecedented, in 1996 Notre Dame was 9-2 having just bungled a big lead in the USC game.  Notre Dame felt too big to 'send St Lou out with a win' and declined a bowl.  And in that era bowl games mattered a lot more.

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Just now, Chad said:

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. 

True, but those G5 schools have no business being in the field of 12.

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2 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

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 

and we played 0u for 96 years before joining the same conference, clemson/cock, uga/wreck, there are plenty of "just as important" long-term non-conference games

DOMER ARE NOT SPECIAL and it's time to take the training wheels off - fucking wage war on their independence or kick them the fuck out of college football - go join the cfl

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3 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

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 

I know plenty about the history of college football. quit posting stupid shit.  JESUS.  ND can join a conf and schedule Navy every year for one of their 3 OOC if they want. No one cares if they play Navy or not.

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Just now, Hagbard Celine said:

and we played 0u for 96 years before joining the same conference, clemson/cock, uga/wreck, there are plenty of "just as important" long-term non-conference games

DOMER ARE NOT SPECIAL and it's time to take the training wheels off - fucking wage war on their independence or kick them the fuck out of college football - go join the cfl

Is it really worth the time and legal fees to force them to join a conference?

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Just now, Hagbard Celine said:

and we played 0u for 96 years before joining the same conference, clemson/cock, uga/wreck, there are plenty of "just as important" long-term non-conference games

DOMER ARE NOT SPECIAL and it's time to take the training wheels off - fucking wage war on their independence or kick them the fuck out of college football - go join the cfl

Hold up. I agree 100% ND should join a conference. I was punching at the statement of them not playing any academies 

1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

I know plenty about the history of college football. quit posting stupid shit.  JESUS.  ND can join a conf and schedule Navy every year for one of their 3 OOC if they want. No one cares if they play Navy or not.

then we agree. Let's hug this out 

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4 minutes ago, Chad said:

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. 

their AD's statements are tripling down in the wrong direction

the pope needs to give them some religion and make a proclamation of capitulation: the b1g will take domer or else, and get the orange man to sign off on it

let it be written and done

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5 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

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.

Both of those things are perfectly legitimate ways to beat your opponent. You don’t get credit just because your opponent found an advantage.

And promising to be this new and improved deluxe model of your team doesn’t mean shit. It doesn’t erase past results. Ask Texas. 

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8 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    Andrea AdelsonDec 7, 2025, 03:36 PM ET

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        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.

If I am doing this right, the response is "don't lose to fucking Miami and Carson Beck"

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2 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Both of those things are perfectly legitimate ways to beat your opponent. You don’t get credit just because your opponent found an advantage.

And promising to be this new and improved deluxe model of your team doesn’t mean shit. It doesn’t erase past results. Ask Texas. 

And what a great opportunity for them to prove the committee wrong by playing a bowl game and beating the fuck out of 11- 2 BYU . 

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3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Is it really worth the time and legal fees to force them to join a conference?

it won't cost a dime

surprise nuclear first strike

declaration of sovereign immunity

terms: get back to us when you have joined a conference; fbs games scheduled against you will be invisible in all stats, and those games will be considered exhibitions

de-platformed

erased

free

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2 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

And what a great opportunity for them to prove the committee wrong by playing a bowl game and beating the fuck out of 11- 2 BYU . 

that's a no-win proposition for them - they get nothing from crushing them

byu are fcs-terrible fraud-tastic

another half-dozen or so bowl opt-outs and we are in business on the bowl season bonfire

burn it down

Posted
2 hours ago, SarksJuggs said:

I mean what the fuck even is this sport anymore? 

So an MOU is typically just an outline of a future and more specific binding agreement. 
 

They (whoever it is that is the other party?) need to impose some parameters on this if they ultimately agree to it….like: provided, however, the teams that Notre Dame must have collectively played    X   Teams from the Power 4 conferences, and those teams must have a minimum collective winning percentage of    Y  

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5 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

it won't cost a dime

surprise nuclear first strike

declaration of sovereign immunity

terms: get back to us when you have joined a conference; fbs games scheduled against you will be invisible in all stats, and those games will be considered exhibitions

de-platformed

erased

free

Seems very non-lawyer-y.

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ND took a self imposed 45 year hiatus from bowls until the late 60s coincidentally when the AP started voting after bowl games for the national championship. 

Let them take their ball and go home,  they'll be back when the sport moves on continues to thrive without them. 

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54 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

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.

 

What a bunch of fucking babies.

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No one cares if you cry because you were left out of the playoffs ND. Join a conference so you play ranked teams if you want to be in the playoffs.  What a bitch move.  

Posted
1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

who is going to have the balls to fine domer for holding practice whenever the fuck they want?

Well, why haven’t any non bowl qualifying teams done this before if it’s so easy?

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When FSU got "screwed" out of the playoff 2 years ago, their titty baby reaction immediately killed their program. 2 straight dogshit losing years. All their previous momentum sucked dry specifically because they decided to play the victim. Nice job by ND to follow that example. 

 

 

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3 hours ago, SarksJuggs said:

I mean what the fuck even is this sport anymore? 

MF ND and their Holy are thou CFB ass!  Today was the sign to join a conference.  Logistically speaking the B10 would be best for Spring sports travel and etc.

No more free passes for ND.  NBC contract isn’t enough anymore when you play a shit schedule.

Hook’em!!!

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