2025 College Football Playoffs

[IrishSteelhead]

Marcus Freeman’s villain arc is almost complete.

Knowing his drive, next season will be scorched fucking earth.

Waiting will be miserable, but the process is still there. This program is on the stage and on everyones mind again.


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[Irishnuke]

It’s comical how the head to head mattered on the final day but not in the several weeks between today and when the standings were first released.

 

[irishff1014]

Marcus Freeman is going to go scorched earth on our schedule next year.

He should be trying to do that every year. The only guarantee is to win ball games.

 

[sfk324]

Yes, there are many people in life like that in general and this season taught me that a good number of posters on this board are like that.

It's one thing to think the only way to get better is for the PTB to see what is going on isn't working. That's not what's going on here, though. This team was a legitimate contender that got screwed and the doom watchers are happy about it because they would rather get to say "told you so" than watch this team in the playoffs. What a sad bunch of sad sack fucks.

 

[LifelongFan]

For the love of god did any of you knuckleheads atleast get rich betting against ND to make the playoffs in the last 24 hrs?

I had my emotional hedging bets. Didn't work and I still feel bad.

 

[ND88]

The lack of self awareness makes me wonder how much they just smash through life

I actually really appreciate everyone's perspective on this board even when it's different from mine. It's just people are upset right now. At the end of the day, we are all on the same team.

 

[pumpdog20]

Miami couldn't win a conference that a 5 loss team won.

ND SOS couldn't improve after the first 2 games because of all the ACC games.

Stop treating that JV conference as a P4.

Leave the conference now! Send the hat around to help pay for the grant of rights.

Fucking joke

 

[IrishBryan77]

First ACC game @ UNC 10/3/2026

We should do whatever possible to flat out embarrass and degrade them.

I don't think that will be very difficult

 

[WildMan1]

Wild that they dropped BYU but didn’t drop Bama for getting blasted by Georgia.

 

[rtrn2glory]

Based on what these ass holes are saying we never had a chance to be in since last Saturday night.

 

[jprue24]

ND should definitely play the bowl. The practices are worth much more than trying to create a new principle. Turn BYU in your statement about the playoffs and a springboard into disabusing college football of the idea that ND doesn't belong..

 

[Huntr]

All this pissed-offedness said though, I really just want a playoff to crown a champion. I don't particularly care about any team getting in past like 5 or 6.

 

[TracyGraham]

Alabama 100% doesn’t deserve to be in.



But the whole thing is politics. I’ve never liked the playoffs going back to the 4 team one. This isn’t sour grapes, but truth.



If Virginia wins last night, ND is in and Miami left out. But because Duke won, the committee puts Miami is so an ACC team is represented.

That's the assumption but it is unprovable and they will obviously never admit it.

 

[GATTACA!]

You guys are retarded. ESPN DESPERATELY wanted Notre Dame in the field for the ratings.

Time for your IE hiatus to begin again you fucking Mickey Mouse ESPN cuck.

 

[jprue24]

Based on what these ass holes are saying we never had a chance to be in since last Saturday night.

Yeah, it sounds like they made a final decision on ND v Bama... because of a fucking 4th down call against a 5-7 rival

 

[mrmcgrail]

How? If Virginia wins they’re the 11 seed and Tulane moves to 12

They needed an ACC team in they weren't going to exclude a power 5 team

 

[wizards8507]

All this pissed-offedness said though, I really just want a playoff to crown a champion. I don't particularly care about any team getting in past like 5 or 6.

Pretending to crown a decisive champion in a field of 130 using a 12 game season is always going to be silly and fake.

 

[PittFanIAm]

I'm not sure why you guys are mad at the ACC. The SEC is SO clearly overrepresented, it's crazy. None of their teams are that good this year. ND (and Miami) should easily be in over Alabama and Oklahoma.

 

[ColinKSU]

Marcus Freeman’s villain arc is almost complete.

Knowing his drive, next season will be scorched fucking earth.

Waiting will be miserable, but the process is still there. This program is on the stage and on everyones mind again.


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I can’t describe to you how pissed I’m going to be if Marcus and next year’s team gives even a shred of respect to anyone on the schedule or the national media and ND beat.

 

[burmafrd1944]

we should make it clear ESPN is not welcome on campus

 

[peadeam]

Not gloating that my gut was right but what this needs to show all of us when trying to analyze this shit show is that comments like “that wouldn’t make sense” or “they can’t do that based on their own guidelines” are dumb statements. They can clearly do whatever the fuck they want including dropping BYU and keeping Alabama which is just unfathomable still to me. And still proclaim that you can’t be punished for losing that game

 

[irish4ever]

It better be asked why BYU was punished for losing in the CCG and Bama wasn’t. *First question asked lol*

For those saying to decline a bowl game, no. Use those practices to prepare for next season, get the uber talented early enrollees a glimpse at what next year’s expectations are, go out and kick another team’s ass who thinks they deserve to be in the playoffs (laughable, but give me Texas or Vandy), and then we go 12-0 in 2026 with a bye in next year’s playoffs!

Can't, those are already reserved for SEC and B1G teams. Hosting a game is our best shot.

 

[PLACforever]

“Best” teams in College Football.
What a Fing joke.
Three loss bama, jmu, Tulane. Smh

 

[Huntr]

Pretending to crown a decisive champion in a field of 130 using a 12 game season is always going to be silly and fake.

It is what it is. None of it will ever be comparable to any other league in any other sport.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

You guys are retarded. ESPN DESPERATELY wanted Notre Dame in the field for the ratings.

I’m sure that’s why every talking head at ESPN started reading from the same “Miami > ND” script in unison two weeks ago.

 

[rtrn2glory]

Conference affiliation in the committee room is a huge problem for us. We have no seat at the table

 

[mrmcgrail]

It's bullshit Miami and ND should both be in but the sec and big ten own the sport right now

 

[Irishnuke]

They don't have to put an ACC team in as an at large.

They didn’t have to in the first place. They didn’t want the backlash for leaving Miami out.

 

[jprue24]

I'm not sure why you guys are mad at the ACC. The SEC is SO clearly overrepresented, it's crazy. None of their teams are that good this year. ND (and Miami) should easily be in over Alabama and Oklahoma.

Because they OPENLY and AGGRESIVELY lobbied against ND

 

[Irishdawg]

It’s comical how the head to head mattered on the final day but not in the several weeks between today and when the standings were first released.

This, just rank Miami ahead of ND 3 weeks ago