Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 17:17     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Miami should not be in playoffs loosing to Louisville and SMU. Duke has been “the Team” in NCAA basketball for 40 plus years. When a team wins the conference title in hoops it gets the automatic bid. Duke won the ACC title yesterday and should have got a bid to CFP. Good for ND.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 17:14     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote: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.[/quote

+1 go Canes
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 16:50     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote: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.


Navy and USC both finished the season in the AP top 25, and Pitt was ranked when ND played them. Meanwhile Texas A&M and Miami are both in the top 10.

The people on this forum are even less informed about football than they are about academics, which is saying something.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 16:42     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
CFP deserves credit for making this decision despite ND’s clout and the school’s broadcast ratings. It is a brave new world for ND, the school no longer has the muscle it had prior to the expansion of the SEC and the B1G. After the ND athletic department stops pouting, some difficult decisions will have to be made.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 16:33     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote: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.


+1
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 16:29     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Miami and ND basically played the same schedule, minus Texas A&M.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:34     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


They beat Georgia last year and lost to Texas A&M by 1 point. But ok.


Notre Dame doesn't have the courage to play against significant teams. They had a cupcake schedule.

Their insistence on playing weak teams - because they can - is lame. Given the realities of SEC and Big 10 football, Notre Dame should alway be out. They don't play a competitive schedule. Great that Notre dame can beat Syracuse at the end of the season, but who cares. Notre Dame today has no business being considered as a top team.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:13     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


This. ND's two toughest matchups this season came in weeks 1 and 2 (Miami and Texas A&M). They lost them both. And then they went on their out of garbage opponents. What a joke.


Yep they had a plan with that schedule. Play two good teams up front get W’s then pad our schedule the rest of the way with cupcakes. It back fired on them.


Good.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:12     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


This. ND's two toughest matchups this season came in weeks 1 and 2 (Miami and Texas A&M). They lost them both. And then they went on their out of garbage opponents. What a joke.


They beat Texas A&M last year and then Georgia in the playoff. Nice try though. ND will remain independent. They don't need to join a conference.


That was last year! Lots of stuff happened last year, it doesn't matter.

They will remain independent and continue to play their cushy little schedule and hopefully continue to be penalized for it in the playoffs. If they are too good for a conference, they are too good for the playoffs. Enjoy the end of your football season.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:11     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


This. ND's two toughest matchups this season came in weeks 1 and 2 (Miami and Texas A&M). They lost them both. And then they went on their out of garbage opponents. What a joke.


Yep they had a plan with that schedule. Play two good teams up front get W’s then pad our schedule the rest of the way with cupcakes. It back fired on them.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:10     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


They beat Georgia last year and lost to Texas A&M by 1 point. But ok.


Losing by one point is still a loss. What, you think we should reconfigure everyone's win-loss records based on "almost winning"?

Classic ND logic.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:10     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


This. ND's two toughest matchups this season came in weeks 1 and 2 (Miami and Texas A&M). They lost them both. And then they went on their out of garbage opponents. What a joke.


They beat Texas A&M last year and then Georgia in the playoff. Nice try though. ND will remain independent. They don't need to join a conference.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:07     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote: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.


This. ND's two toughest matchups this season came in weeks 1 and 2 (Miami and Texas A&M). They lost them both. And then they went on their out of garbage opponents. What a joke.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:06     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote: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.


They beat Georgia last year and lost to Texas A&M by 1 point. But ok.
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2025 15:05     Subject: MIami IN Notre Dame Out
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Next year they will go to 16 teams and this will no longer be an issue. The current format is extremely flawed. Irish have no good reason to join a conference, and as the article stated, it seems they will dig their heels in.