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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad look for ND. Meltdown in the cereal aisle.[/quote]

This is such bullshit.  Anyone who is even slightly objective has to concede that the committee did a terrible job and led Notre Dame on before pulling the rug out from under them.

Can anyone dispute that this is how it all went down:

Basically you had to be in the top ten to get into the playoff as an at large team.  
For several weeks in a row the committee rankings were

9.  Notre Dame
10.  Alabama 
11.  BYU
12.  Miami

Then in the last week of the regular season and out of the blue they switched it to

9.  Alabama 
10. ND
11.  BYU
12.  Miami

They said they made the switch because Alabama was “impressive” in squeaking by a touchdown over Auburn, even though Auburn’s record was only 5-7 and the game was in doubt until the very end

That same weekend ND flew out to Stanford, 4-8, and won by 29 points after resting all its starters in a game that didn’t even start until 10:30 pm in ND’s time zone

The following weekend Alabama and BYU play in their conference championship games.  Both get embarrassed

Notre dame and Miami didn’t play games because their seasons were over

So the final rankings come out:

9. Alabama 
10. Miami
11. ND
12. BYU

The committee “explained” that it didn’t drop Alabama because it shouldn’t be penalized for playing an extra game (the championship game for their conference) no matter how badly they played

BUT they penalized BYU for the same exact thing and dropped them!

It then “explained” that with ND and Miami now right next to each other the tie breaker was that they played each other in August at Miami and Miami won by 3.   So they moved Miami up to 10 and ND down to 11 and out of the playoffs

BUT here’s the thing:  they’ve known since DAY ONE that Miami won that game but every single week still ranked ND ahead of Miami because they said ND’s entire season was more impressive.

If this isn’t pulling the rug out from under a bunch of 19 and 20 year olds, what is?

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