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Anonymous wrote:Listen to this giant, petulant baby throwing a massive tantrum:

“There is no explanation that could possibly be given to explain the outcome,” Bevacqua said. “As I said to (Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman), one thing is for sure: Any rankings or show prior to this last one is an absolute joke and a waste of time. Why put these young student-athletes through these false emotions just to pull the rug out from underneath them having not played a game in two weeks and then a group of people in a room shatter their dreams without explanation?

“We feel like the playoff was stolen from our student-athletes.”

If ND was smart, they'd fire this moron. They hadn't played in two weeks because they declined to play a bowl game, idiot. And there is an explanation for the outcome, you just don't like it because it involves acknowledging ND's self-selected schedule of cupcakes and the fact that they were unable to win either of the two actually competitive games they played.

What did ND do to earn a spot in the playoffs other than just suit up in uniforms that say "Notre Dame." Beat USC? Alabama beat Georgia. Miami beat... Notre Dame. USC doesn't cut it. Play and win against good teams and you can go to the playoffs.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a college board. Per 2026 US News rankings- Duke 7, ND 20, UMiami 64, JMU 151, and UAlabama 169. That says it all.

Bravo!!

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Anonymous wrote:weak schedule. navy, bc, stanford, purdue -if they want to be in the playoff and not be in a conference they have to play the top teams.

Or at least more good teams.

Also they need to actually win the games against the good teams they play. They didn't have a single impressive win this season. They ran up the score against extremely weak teams and lost to the two comparable teams they played. That's it.

This is one of the reasons they should have played a bowl game against BYU, simply to prove that they could beat a decent team. Had they played BYU and won, this would have at least demonstrated that their strong record wasn't entirely due to a weak schedule. As it stands, the best argument you can make for the quality of ND's team this year is that they *almost* beat Texas A&M. And this is a problem entirely of their own making.

Sometimes other teams have cushier schedules but it's not their own creation -- they play in conferences with weaker opponents and get lucky with some scheduling. ND's weak schedule, every single year, is something they dictate for themselves. And never more so this year when they chose not to play BYU after also losing games to Texas A&M and Miami. I guess the team didn't feel it had anything to prove? Sounds like a team that isn't going to the playoffs.

ND, for once, appropriately rated.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a college board. Per 2026 US News rankings- Duke 7, ND 20, UMiami 64, JMU 151, and UAlabama 169. That says it all.

And Vanderbilt is better than all of them. Much tougher SEC football schedule and better academically. But Vandy accepted the decisions, and moved on and will play their Bowl game without issue.

I have no idea what Notre Dame is doing. But from looking at social media, Notre Dame is getting an extraordinary amount of hate.

Anonymous wrote:Forgive me if this has been asked and answered, but if the Group of 5 conferences is guaranteed one spot in the CFP, how did two G5 teams get in: JMU and Tulane, neither of whom is as good as Notre Dame?

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a college board. Per 2026 US News rankings- Duke 7, ND 20, UMiami 64, JMU 151, and UAlabama 169. That says it all.

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Anonymous wrote:ND made $20m they did not have to share with a conference off of last year's run to the championship game. The Pop Tart money is nothing to them.

And I don't think BYU had anything to do with their decision. I'd encourage BYU to do them same since they also got royally screwed by the fact that some rules don't seem to apply to Bama but do to them.

Burn it down. Top 12 ranked teams at the end of the season. Ranking determined by computer.

The computer would have to be programmed with metrics for rankings, since these teams mostly don't even play each other. Or do you just want AI to do it, with the hopes that the AI will have seen Rudy?

BYU was not "royally screwed" because they would not have made the CFB either way. They were on the bubble and wound up just out of contention. Like ND. Though unlike ND, BYU are not big, entitled babies and are accepting it and moving on.

ND wasn't on the bubble. They have been 9 or 10 the entire period the CFP was releasing their weekly rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:Applaud ND who cares about playing a meaningless game. Duke got robbed once in a lifetime opportunity in football playoffs taken away when their platinum brand in hoops has fed the NCAA for last 40 years.

[Apologies to the rest of the posters, but I'm going to keep asking this question until one of the meaningless game posters responds.]

Virtually every bowl game ND (and most other teams) have played in, ever, was "meaningless." What makes this one different?

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Anonymous wrote:weak schedule. navy, bc, stanford, purdue -if they want to be in the playoff and not be in a conference they have to play the top teams.

Or at least more good teams.

Also they need to actually win the games against the good teams they play. They didn't have a single impressive win this season. They ran up the score against extremely weak teams and lost to the two comparable teams they played. That's it.

This is one of the reasons they should have played a bowl game against BYU, simply to prove that they could beat a decent team. Had they played BYU and won, this would have at least demonstrated that their strong record wasn't entirely due to a weak schedule. As it stands, the best argument you can make for the quality of ND's team this year is that they *almost* beat Texas A&M. And this is a problem entirely of their own making.

Sometimes other teams have cushier schedules but it's not their own creation -- they play in conferences with weaker opponents and get lucky with some scheduling. ND's weak schedule, every single year, is something they dictate for themselves. And never more so this year when they chose not to play BYU after also losing games to Texas A&M and Miami. I guess the team didn't feel it had anything to prove? Sounds like a team that isn't going to the playoffs.

ND, for once, appropriately rated.

They beat two teams that finished in the top 25 and a third that was ranked when they played. Their only two losses were to teams that made the CFP.

I’m not even an ND booster but this forum is filled with morons.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:weak schedule. navy, bc, stanford, purdue -if they want to be in the playoff and not be in a conference they have to play the top teams.

Or at least more good teams.

Also they need to actually win the games against the good teams they play. They didn't have a single impressive win this season. They ran up the score against extremely weak teams and lost to the two comparable teams they played. That's it.

This is one of the reasons they should have played a bowl game against BYU, simply to prove that they could beat a decent team. Had they played BYU and won, this would have at least demonstrated that their strong record wasn't entirely due to a weak schedule. As it stands, the best argument you can make for the quality of ND's team this year is that they *almost* beat Texas A&M. And this is a problem entirely of their own making.

Sometimes other teams have cushier schedules but it's not their own creation -- they play in conferences with weaker opponents and get lucky with some scheduling. ND's weak schedule, every single year, is something they dictate for themselves. And never more so this year when they chose not to play BYU after also losing games to Texas A&M and Miami. I guess the team didn't feel it had anything to prove? Sounds like a team that isn't going to the playoffs.

ND, for once, appropriately rated.

They beat two teams that finished in the top 25 and a third that was ranked when they played. Their only two losses were to teams that made the CFP.

I’m not even an ND booster but this forum is filled with morons.

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Anonymous wrote:ND made $20m they did not have to share with a conference off of last year's run to the championship game. The Pop Tart money is nothing to them.

And I don't think BYU had anything to do with their decision. I'd encourage BYU to do them same since they also got royally screwed by the fact that some rules don't seem to apply to Bama but do to them.

Burn it down. Top 12 ranked teams at the end of the season. Ranking determined by computer.

The computer would have to be programmed with metrics for rankings, since these teams mostly don't even play each other. Or do you just want AI to do it, with the hopes that the AI will have seen Rudy?

BYU was not "royally screwed" because they would not have made the CFB either way. They were on the bubble and wound up just out of contention. Like ND. Though unlike ND, BYU are not big, entitled babies and are accepting it and moving on.