Notre Dame has reached the end as an "independent" school. Playing Stanford, Syracuse, Pitt, Navy and other non-competitive teams at the end of the schedule. What's the point?

Notre Dame would get destroyed if they played an SEC schedule.

Mediocre.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ND needs to rethink their scheduling moving forward or join a P4 Conference.

Many stakeholders across college sports — perhaps even some in the CFP selection committee room — have expressed public and private belief that the Irish should join a league.

On Sunday, Bevacqua strongly pushed back against that notion. Notre Dame is one of the country’s most valuable brands, holds a lucrative independent television contract with NBC and has one of the richest apparel deals with Under Armour.

“We love being independent in football. It’s part of our DNA,” Bevacqua said. “We have zero intention of changing that. It’s part of who Notre Dame is. Quite frankly, this further cements our independence. We are out there fighting for ourselves. That’s something we accept.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/notre-dame-despondent-after-being-left-out-of-college-football-playoff--overwhelming-shock-and-sadness-192622885.html

Right. Their "DNA" is cashing checks, not playing football.

I feel a little bad for some of the players but, honestly, most of them could have played elsewhere but picked ND. This is baked in.

LOVE seeing ND get snubbed here and think it's just. Alabama has one more loss than ND only because Alabama bothers to actually belong to a conference and thus played a conference championship game. That should be rewarded over ND, who continue to think they are simply too good to join a conference.

And obviously they shouldn't have gotten the spot over Miami -- Miami beat them in the head to head. The biggest problem with the college football playoffs is that it can be hard to compare teams that never play each other and often don't play many of the same opponents either. But when there *is* a head to head, and the teams have the same record, of course you give it to the team who won the head-to-head.

I'm sure ND fans will whine about this but since they will whine literally no matter what happens, who cares? ND has a talented team and a good program but they choose to be a giant PITA generally and for that reason I am never sad to see them suffer for it.

Anonymous wrote:ND needs to rethink their scheduling moving forward or join a P4 Conference.

Many stakeholders across college sports — perhaps even some in the CFP selection committee room — have expressed public and private belief that the Irish should join a league.

On Sunday, Bevacqua strongly pushed back against that notion. Notre Dame is one of the country’s most valuable brands, holds a lucrative independent television contract with NBC and has one of the richest apparel deals with Under Armour.

“We love being independent in football. It’s part of our DNA,” Bevacqua said. “We have zero intention of changing that. It’s part of who Notre Dame is. Quite frankly, this further cements our independence. We are out there fighting for ourselves. That’s something we accept.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/notre-dame-despondent-after-being-left-out-of-college-football-playoff--overwhelming-shock-and-sadness-192622885.html

Why should schools that arbitrarily admit students for the sake of ‘class shaping’ be upset to see the likes of JMU chosen before them in the CFP?

JMU and Tulane is the "affirmative action" of the CFP. Don't believe me, just look at Boise State. The Broncos got blown out by Penn State last year in the playoff.

Anonymous wrote:The committee handled it really badly. Alabama should have dropped out.

ND would have had trouble losing less than 4 games with Alabama’s SEC schedule, Georgia twice, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Missouri. No comparison.

The committee handled it really badly. Alabama should have dropped out.

Big Duke fan believe Blue Devils would beat JMU easily in a play in game. Bama should not be in. Wish ND would join ACC full-time. With 2 conference losses Miami also has no right to be selected.

Anonymous wrote:Total BS decision.

Definitely not.

Go Canes!

ND lost to both Miami and Texas A&M. But James Madison has no right to be in there.

Total BS decision.

Or they could have just beaten Miami earlier in the year and then they would have been in.

ND needs to rethink their scheduling moving forward or join a P4 Conference.