2025 College Football Playoffs

[spoonidentity]

ACC afterwards ND 2 years ago with bowl selections... This ending up in the Sun Bowl. The people of El Paso and the organizers understand the draw of ND and truly appreciated them.

I would not be surprised if ND is pushed down there again due to ACC shenanigans

 

[RipWheeler]

If they have to play a bowl, they should force their way to the Holiday Bowl. Which is on Fox and contains ACC affiliation.

Sun Bowl as second choice.

Completely agree. However ND will probably roll over like always and eat the turd sandwhich they are dealt.

 

[thekid33]

While we are telling everyone to fuck off here is one to add to the list....

Fuck the NCAA for being such a shitty institution that control over one of it's sports postseasons is now in the hands of a corrupt media company that has a financial interest in one of the conferences

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

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

Not as much as they wanted SEC teams in it.

 

[KizerRolls]

Feel free to copy and paste some thoughts.

 

[bkess8]

Two paths for the future of college football IMO.

1. BCS rankings with a 16 team playoff format. Get rid of the BS auto qualifiers for conference champs.

2. Soccer style rankings with tiers that have relegations at the end of a period of 1 year or open to other ideas on this one. Have the tiers play each other during the "regular season" and then have a call up/demotion at the end of the season.

 

[Dale]

I forgot they did this.

 

[KizerRolls]

Two paths for the future of college football IMO.

1. BCS rankings with a 16 team playoff format. Get rid of the BS auto qualifiers for conference champs.

2. Soccer style rankings with tiers that have relegations at the end of a period of 1 year or open to other ideas on this one. Have the tiers play each other during the "regular season" and then have a call up/demotion at the end of the season.

#1 is the easiest, most logical, and best option.

 

[sfk324]

While we are telling everyone to fuck off here is one to add to the list....

Fuck the NCAA for being such a shitty institution that control over one of it's sports postseasons is now in the hands of a corrupt media company that has a financial interest in one of the conferences

Two conferences. But the rest of the point stands.

 

[Dale]

If this was active this year, they would have done

9 Alabama
10 Miami
11 BYU
12 Tulane
13 Notre Dame

or some BS.

 

[bkess8]

#1 is the easiest, most logical, and best option.

I agree and it also gets us out of these stupid super conferences that have no reason existing. Why is Oregon traveling to Rutgers to play any sport.

 

[N_D_Fighting_Irish]

Two paths for the future of college football IMO.

1. BCS rankings with a 16 team playoff format. Get rid of the BS auto qualifiers for conference champs.

2. Soccer style rankings with tiers that have relegations at the end of a period of 1 year or open to other ideas on this one. Have the tiers play each other during the "regular season" and then have a call up/demotion at the end of the season.

College football is DEAD.

 

[sfk324]

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16-team playoff incoming.

 

[Chino Cherokee]

I've moved on to 2026:

09/06 – vs Wisconsin (in Green Bay, WI)
09/12 – Rice
09/19 – Michigan State
09/26 – at Purdue
10/03 – at North Carolina
10/10 – HOME GAME TBA
10/17 – HOME GAME TBA
10/24 – TBA
10/31 – vs Navy (in Foxborough, MA)
11/07 – HOME GAME TBA
11/14 – TBA
11/21 – HOME GAME TBA
11/28 – TBA

Thoughts?

 

[dang227]

I don’t want to play in some shitty bowl where someone could get hurt and miss the next season and why did we send Ron Powlus to do our presentation? He is the one heavily involved in scheduling.

 

[pumpdog20]

11/07 is Miami and they are going to get fucked up

 

[sfk324]

I don’t want to play in some shitty bowl where someone could get hurt and miss the next season and why did we send Ron Powlus to do our presentation? He is the one heavily involved in scheduling.

He has people skills, dammit? He talks to the committee so the engineers don't have to.

 

[thekid33]

Thoughts?

Insert Mr. T "Pain" gif

We are killing everyone next year

 

[stpeteirish]

Anyone else think a big reason this happened is no more Swarbrick, Bevacqua is in over his head?

Swarbrick is responsible for our schedule which is a big reason we didn’t get in

 

[ReesusCrist]

If this was active this year, they would have done

9 Alabama
10 Miami
11 BYU
12 Tulane
13 Notre Dame

or some BS.

Exactly. The committee predetermined this outcome a few weeks ago. They hoped the results on the field would justify the outcome, and when the didn't get the results they wanted, they just did it anyway. There are no rules when it comes to corruption.

 

[Bane]

The whole “held Love to 33 yards” is a Miami media talking point they’ve hammered for weeks now. It shows their monthlong cryfest worked. This is why they wanted to do away with the computers.

 

[Irish du Nord]

Please not BYU

Nah fuck them we’ll win by 50

 

[1776]

The NUMBER ONE rule change that needs to be implemented is that all future committee meetings are done 100% publicly. Live stream it, put a camera in the room and let everyone listen in.

The days of having silent boardroom meetings and then throwing up some jackass to answer questions like he is testifying to congress need to end NOW

 

[NDWarrior]

One thing that stands out to me is Hunter Yurachek replacing Mack Rhoades as CFP committee chair supposedlybecause Rhoades stepped down due to "personal reasons" amid investigations by Baylor into alleged misconduct, including an incident with a player and new allegations regarding faith-based policy violations, prompting his leave from Baylor and the CFP leadership.

Is it coincidental that within a week of Yuracek taking over, the committee started shifting to this ‘bama ranked over ND posture and the narrative that “if ND and Miami are ranked consecutively, then we can look at and use the H2H matchup in week 1 to separate the two teams.”

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Yeah, I agree. But two 10-2 teams got in. And then a 10-3 team that lost by 21 yesterday.

Not an issue if ND starts 1-1. The Miami loss you understand because it's on the road and Carr's first ever start.

Losing like that to the Aggies at home? Unforgivable.

 

[CoachB]

The whole “held Love to 33 yards” is a Miami media talking point they’ve hammered for weeks now. It shows their monthlong cryfest worked. This is why they wanted to do away with the computers.

Listen here, moron. The fact that ND threw a million now screens and didn't throw down the field allowed Miami to crowd the box. Guess who is #1 in the country at passing downfield now. Idiots!

The only WR we were not hanging with is Hobbs on Toney. Guess what? Hobbs isnt playing anymore. We now have Davonte and Tae. Don't think we are idiots, schmuck. If we can see through that in two seconds, so can you.

 

[1776]

I forgot they did this.

They would just launder the rankings to get their desired outcome anyway

 

[CoachB]

One thing that stands out to me is Hunter Yurachek replacing Mack Rhoades as CFP committee chair supposedlybecause Rhoades stepped down due to "personal reasons" amid investigations by Baylor into alleged misconduct, including an incident with a player and new allegations regarding faith-based policy violations, prompting his leave from Baylor and the CFP leadership.

Is it coincidental that within a week of Yuracek taking over, the committee started shifting to this ‘bama ranked over ND posture and the narrative that “if ND and Miami are ranked consecutively, then we can look at and use the H2H matchup in week 1 to separate the two teams.”

I was worried about that too. It started changing right when he took over.

 

[IrishLax]

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OK knowing this I am now in 100% conspiracy mode that they actively chose to fuck us because it will be the last opportunity for them to do so. It seems weirdly prescient that they thought they even needed that kind of MOU but when you see what happened with the 2x G5 AQs this year you get the foresight.

 

[IrishTusker]

Not an issue if ND starts 1-1. The Miami loss you understand because it's on the road and Carr's first ever start.

Losing like that to the Aggies at home? Unforgivable.

Certainly agree. A&M was the worst loss I've seen since following ND (2013) and this confirms that.