2025 College Football Playoffs

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Dale said:
- These rankings just revealed the playoff is not about metrics, not about resume, not about head to head, none of it. It is a room full of business partners who decide how to allocate money.

- The loser of the SEC (or B1G) Championship game will NEVER receive a punishment that is anything but cosmetic.

- None of the P5 conferences will EVER get left out of a CFP.

- The week to week rankings and show DO NOT MATTER.

- Given the above, ND needs to seriously reconsider Independence. You cannot continue to play a rigged game.
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Abandoning Independence or some kind of tie ups with SEC and/or definitely Big10 teams to offset the recent weakness of The ACC.
 
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Riddickulous said:
Looks like we're headed for a full blown villain arc in 2026.
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I don't want this to turn into a political thing, but I will say I wouldn't mind them pulling a Trump administration move and banning ESPN, the SECN, ACCN, and the ACC administrators from campus, revoking their credentials, and ignoring questions at away games. Refuse the on-field interviews. Put out a general statement before the season that they are not objective reporters and we have no interest in engaging with them, and this is a consequence of the bed they made over the past 3 weeks.
 
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Riddickulous said:
Looks like we're headed for a full blown villain arc in 2026.
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I know it's not the same, but this is basically a carbon copy of what happened to the lacrosse team a few years ago. They were clearly the #2 or at worst the #3 best team in the country. They had a couple early season losses, but blew out everyone over the latter part of the season. An extremely biased selection committee left them entirely out of the field when most thought they would be hosting a 1st round game.

They came back next year and played with a killer instinct the likes of which I've never seen and won back-to-back championships.
 
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IrishLax said:
That written into the bylaws starting next year is that if ND is in the Top 12 of the rankings they cannot get bumped for a lower ranked AQ (instead they will bump another at-large).
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Wait so am I understanding this correctly? If ND finishes ranked 12th, you could have a scenario where:
12. g5 champion
11. B12 champion
10. ACC champion
9. At large ND despite being 12?

Crazy work by ND if I’m understanding that right
 
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notredomer23 said:
Wait so am I understanding this correctly? If ND finishes ranked 12th, you could have a scenario where:
12. g5 champion
11. B12 champion
10. ACC champion
9. At large ND despite being 12?

Crazy work by ND if I’m understanding that right
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This means nothing. Committee just dropped us from 9 to 11 for no reason. They will just stick us at 13 or whatever if they want us out.
 
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You’re gonna get complaints from talking heads now that ND is babies or spoiled. We are not in 2005 bowl season anymore. The bowls outside the CFP serve zero purpose besides inventory for ESPN when people are off work over the holidays. Don’t get it twisted.
 
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It also drives me crazy that ESPN dragged this shit as long as possible to get as many clicks and eyeballs as possible on the disclosure. It’s clear they knew what they were going to do based on what took place on the field yesterday. But they used ND and their fans as a pawn in their never ending quest for more money
 
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