Ville finished the year far outside of the Final 25. They were a dumpster fire the last third of the season. SMU lost to Cal in a must-win, that's an ugly loss. Somehow these losses didn't matter.
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Louisville was ranked 20 then lost to Clemson by 1 before the SMU game, SMU was ranked during the Cal game. I don’t think either is an awful loss, they’re solid teams. It’s not like they lost to BC. I think the head to head win over ND should be a bigger factor.
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Miami, Clemson, FSU (with a good coach), Penn State, Notre Dame (and Syracuse!) is a pretty great upper echelon for a football conference. Maybe add in an unhappy Michigan and USC and we’re instantly better than the Big 10. Then Ohio State abandons the sinking ship of the B1G. East coast eyeballs are the most coveted, and the ACC has all the biggest markets. Done and dusted. Plus you kill the Carolina mafia once and for all. Lol. One can dream!
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Miami is the only team that made the CFP that had two losses to teams that finished outside of the top 25. They're not good losses for damn sure but somehow no one ever mentions these losses.
Personally, I'd like to see the CFP assign much of the task to five large sportsbooks. They could come up with aggregate power ratings to rank all of the at-large teams. This assumes the ACC comes up with a normal tie-breaking procedure lol. Far less corruption and they wouldn't be influenced by campaigns from networks, coaches, podcasters etc.
FanDuel had lookahead lines this morning. ND was favored by 5.5 on the road at Oklahoma. Obviously that line would be greater than a TD on a neutral. OU an 8 seed and ND out. That should never happen. BTW Alabama only favored by 1.5 against OU.
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If this result forces ND to look at joining a conference then I don’t think this years CFP picture encourages them to join the ACC as a full member
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Rudy refused to go in.
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Notre Dame’s the most entitled soft program in the nation. They could be playing the guards from Longest Yard and I’d root against them.
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ND AD Pete Bevacqua, who is the former chairman of NBC Sports, gives a big middle finger to the world wide leader.
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Oh no whatever is ESPN going to do without ND playing in the PopTart bowl.
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Clearly it's messed up the entire ACC lineup.
As usual, we're late announcing matchups.
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Messed up the lineup sure but it isn't going to set ESPN back a major amount of money or anything. Would they like it better if they played sure but do they really care? No.
It may hurt the people of Pop Tarts because they will probably sell less tickets to the game but it wouldn't cost ESPN a major amount of money and they wont lose sleep over it.
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Advertisement revenue wouldnt be hurt by not having ND?
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Nah that stuff is standard already signed those Bowls aren't big enough anyways to get special treatment.
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For example...the 2024 championship charged 1 mill for 60 seconds (Michigan vs Washington).
2025 had ESPN charge 2 mill for 30 sec...I wonder what the difference was that allowed ESPN to charge so much.
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Usually those change based on previous years veiwership and projected viewership way before teams are announced or if major things change like COVID during the year and more people are watching TV or spending time online.
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Can u blame them? I've never seen a more orchestrated campaign in TV sports than what ESPN did with ND. Such an amazing coincidence that every talking head (and there are a couple dozen) at the network talked up the Canes over ND and also felt Bama should be in. There were essentially no dissenters. Gee I wonder why?
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Yup...also took a bit deeper of a dive and 2025 was the change from 4 teams to the expanded playoffs. Makes 100% sense.
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There's a problem with that graphic...can you pick it out?
No W-L record for Oklahoma.
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Sorry if this article has already been posted. It's very good.
Is the committee sending a message to ND to join a conference? Or is it a reflection of years of frustration with ND's outsize influence on college football? Or both?
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Is the committee sending a message to ND to join a conference? Or is it a reflection of years of frustration with ND's outsize influence on college football? Or both?
College Football Playoff committee sending message to Notre Dame by leaving Irish out of 12-team field
The work is finally done for the worst selection committee in the CFP's history, and make no mistake, excluding Notre Dame was a message from the CFP.
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