2025 College Football Playoffs

[yankeehater]

The argument that ND must join a conference rings hollow when several of the teams expected and being pushed for the playoff are not even in their conference championships.

 

[thekid33]

It’s the same issue as FSU a few years back. This is why I dislike the committee. Regardless of what happens with Kiffin and staff, you cannot punish them despite success for the season.

Deserving of a spot based on the season should still resonate.

If Matthew Stafford got hurt in week 16, the NFL wouldn’t refuse the Rams a playoff spot.

The sport badly needs an NFL rule that prohibits talking to active coaches until their season is over. Which, of course leads to the problem of the academic calendar vs. the football calendar. It's a mess.

 

[Riddickulous]

If Charlie Weis Jr doesn’t coach in the playoff, you have to seriously consider dropping Ole Miss out IMO

You cannot say Kiffin + a whole offensive staff not coaching doesn’t have a measurable impact.

Sounds like he's leaving with Kiffin.

 

[GowerND11]

The sport badly needs an NFL rule that prohibits talking to active coaches until their season is over. Which, of course leads to the problem of the academic calendar vs. the football calendar. It's a mess.

Agreed. This is also the issue of the expanded playoff. I love that we have a chance with 2 losses to win the natty, but there’s always a metric shit ton of reasons to keep teams out/put teams in.

 

[GowerND11]

I still think it would be a hilarious Kiffin troll job for all of this to be happening, only to decide to stay at Ole Miss.

 

[Ndaccountant]

I still think it would be a hilarious Kiffin troll job for all of this to be happening, only to decide to stay at Ole Miss.

That train has left....

 

[GowerND11]

That train has left....

Oh it has. But a man can dream! Haha

 

[NDPhilly]

ND still #9 in the new Coaches Poll.

They aren’t going to have the balls to drop OU /Bama and I doubt the committee does either. Brands matter.

 

[Irish Norseman]

They should. 100% agree. But, the committee didn't punish teams last year for losing in the conference championship games...

Thank god it’s a new committee and they only did that because of the teams sitting at the cut line. Alabama at 9-3 had no business making it so the decision to not punish anyone in the conference championship games was an easy decision. This year there are several 10-2 teams worthy and the ACC and Group of 5 “stealing” a bid makes it a hard call.

 

[rtrn2glory]

IDK what the answer is but maybe the best would be do push back spring ball and make it less days total. IDK I'm short on sleep and not sure if that helps the calendar at all but if you start second week of May right after spring semester and have 7 total practices 🤷‍♂️

Then guys can finish there seasons and have a few months IDK prolly gets rid of the need for early enrollees too.. Dumb idea prolly but I do think it's crazy that we started spring practice last year two months removed from playing in the national championship game

 

[stlnd01]

Thank god it’s a new committee and they only did that because of the teams sitting at the cut line. Alabama at 9-3 had no business making it so the decision to not punish anyone in the conference championship games was an easy decision. This year there are several 10-2 teams worthy and the ACC and Group of 5 “stealing” a bid makes it a hard call.

Yeah. I don't know that "not docking teams for losing a CCG" is a hard and fast forever rule. Like, if Bama loses next week by multiple scores, why should they get in over us or Miami?

 

[NorthDakota]

Irishffffuckingnegativeabouteverythingallthetime being a degenerate better who slams the line on ND no matter how absurd makes so much sense.

If the committee needs someone who can judge blowouts, I'll fly out on my own dime. They are all probably high achievers who can't relate to the different degrees of belt to ass. Only a loser can truly explain it.

Degenerate gamblers, even if losers, are too sick to remember those lessons.

 

[Johannes]

The argument that ND must join a conference rings hollow when several of the teams expected and being pushed for the playoff are not even in their conference championships.

It's been said many times around here, but who would want to be part of these fucked up conferences right now? On the ranking of what's wrong with CFB, the current conference paradigm is pushing for the top seed.

 

[stlnd01]

Yeah. I don't know that "not docking teams for losing a CCG" is a hard and fast forever rule. Like, if Bama loses next week by multiple scores, why should they get in over us or Miami?

It also would be karmic fun to see Bama be the first team out of the CFP for two years in a row, because of different sets of the committee's self-imposed "rules." I've nothing against Bama in particular, but they had their turn.

 

[CTIDANDREW]

If Charlie Weis Jr doesn’t coach in the playoff, you have to seriously consider dropping Ole Miss out IMO

You cannot say Kiffin + a whole offensive staff not coaching doesn’t have a measurable impact.

They will certainly consider it, but man Ole Miss may burn this whole thing down if they do it.
It would take some major stones to do, and I would personally be shocked.

The chair basically already gave themselves an out by saying the reason FSU was so strongly impacted, is because Travis didn’t play in the ACC title game.

They don’t have any sample size of how the team plays without Lane and Weis Jr, so they can’t say matter of fact it is a negative.

 

[Irish Norseman]

FPI:
3 ND
7 Miami
16 Okla

Overall Efficiency:
5 ND
7 Miami
13 Okla

Offensive Efficiency:
3 ND
20 Miami
54 Okla

Defensive Efficiency:
4 Okla
6 Miami
8 ND

Ari Wasserman is barking up the wrong tree. His energy should be Miami vs Oklahoma. If you want to honor head to head it should be

8 Miami
9 ND
10 Okla
11 Alabama

 

[rtrn2glory]

The TV and medias erection for the SEC would never let that happen

 

[NDty9]

So are we wetting mattresses today, or feeling good after looking like a bad ass team for the 10th week in a row ?

 

[stlnd01]

I assume Ole Miss’ players would stick around for the CFP even if the coaches don’t, right? Or is the quarterback expected to be on the plane to Baton Rouge too?

 

[NorthDakota]

It's been said many times around here, but who would want to be part of these fucked up conferences right now? On the ranking of what's wrong with CFB, the current conference paradigm is pushing for the top seed.

Schools desperate for money. It's all it is and after the last round of realignment I think they all admit it. Talk to basically any fan, they miss their old conference (whether team switched or absorbed).

 

[PolishDomer]

So are we wetting mattresses today, or feeling good after looking like a bad ass team for the 10th week in a row ?

Well I did buy a new mattress for Black Friday...but it was for my son whose dog chewed some holes in it lol...no bedwetting here

 

[CTIDANDREW]

FPI:
3 ND
7 Miami
16 Okla

Overall Efficiency:
5 ND
7 Miami
13 Okla

Offensive Efficiency:
3 ND
20 Miami
54 Okla

Defensive Efficiency:
4 Okla
6 Miami
8 ND

Ari Wasserman is barking up the wrong tree. His energy should be Miami vs Oklahoma. If you want to honor head to head it should be

8 Miami
9 ND
10 Okla
11 Alabama

Yeah, this right here is how I feel.
On top of the fact that ND is strongly respected by Saragin (2nd) & other respected power metric names in the business have them rated top 7 at worst.

The entire idea of the committee is to have educated football minds making the decisions who can look at metrics and data such as these and pick the best teams.
No longer leaving it up to media members who may have never even played the sport, and coaching assistants just writing (25) names in every week.

By every metric ND is power rated as a top (5-7) if not higher team in the country.

It would be a huge disappointment if they don’t see this, but when you leave it up to humans crazy things happen.

 

[Huntr]

I wonder how it works if the majority of Ol Miss players and coaches that would leave to follow Kiffin to LSU didn't announce it until after next Sunday's selection show.

Like, say basically Kiff says he's going today, OM gets dropped a few spots but are still in the CFP in the final selection next Sunday at noon, then the rest of the staff and whichever players announce they're leaving immediately after the semester ends and won't be in the game.

Ole Miss finals week ends 12DEC.

 

[NorthDakota]

So are we wetting mattresses today, or feeling good after looking like a bad ass team for the 10th week in a row ?

Some will. The wailing and gnashing of teeth on sports media and social media makes people worry too much i think.

They know crying about Notre Dame will generate discussion. ND's resume isnt ideal. But everyone outside the top 6-7 (hehe) have issues.

 

[Bane]

They will certainly consider it, but man Ole Miss may burn this whole thing down if they do it.
It would take some major stones to do, and I would personally be shocked.

The chair basically already gave themselves an out by saying the reason FSU was so strongly impacted, is because Travis didn’t play in the ACC title game.

They don’t have any sample size of how the team plays without Lane and Weis Jr, so they can’t say matter of fact it is a negative.

I do not foresee that Ole Miss, a second to third tier program in their own conference, has the power to do any such thing if FSU, a far more premier brand, did not 3 years ago.

 

[Bane]

They aren’t going to have the balls to drop OU /Bama and I doubt the committee does either. Brands matter.

Eh, I mean they dropped Bama from 4 to 10 for a 2 point loss to OU. Brands do matter and ours is as big as anyone brand. Besides, swapping ND for OU cements us in and I feel like they really want us in, and it's not like it knocks OU out or anything.

The cleanest thing for them to do is just to drop OM down to like 12 or 13, and slot everyone else up accordingly. They could also swap Miami and BYU since BYU controls their own destiny anyways and that would get Miami in and insure ACC representation in case Duke actually wins the ACCCG.

 

[Irish Norseman]

Let’s also discuss the SEC getting the benefit of the doubt again with all these mid teams acting like they are world beaters. Teams are getting credit for beating Missouri, Tennessee, and Vandy because they were top 15ish teams when they played but they aren’t that good. Vandy is the best of these teams and when they played teams with top talent (TX and Alabama) they showed their ass.

 

[Bane]

What a petty bitch to list them alphabetically so he can put Miami ahead of us lmao

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

If they drop Ole Miss and ND jumps Oklahoma...Miami 10 seed playing at ND 7 seed becomes a real possibility...

 

[IrishinSyria]

They will certainly consider it, but man Ole Miss may burn this whole thing down if they do it.
It would take some major stones to do, and I would personally be shocked.

The chair basically already gave themselves an out by saying the reason FSU was so strongly impacted, is because Travis didn’t play in the ACC title game.

They don’t have any sample size of how the team plays without Lane and Weis Jr, so they can’t say matter of fact it is a negative.

That was such a bullshit decision and the committee should just come out and say we fucked up and won’t do it again with the new format.