2025 College Football Playoffs

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mrmcgrail said:
It would have been one thing if every other poll or metric had Notre dame behind Alabama and Miami but the insanity is that the only one that dropped us behind both is the only one that matters
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This has basically been my jumping off point with anyone who's been trying to debate me in my personal life. I simply ask them to explain why they believe the CFP committee is capable of getting that right and the other 15 polls got it wrong (including Vegas). They almost unanimously will defer to H2H vs Miami. It's a dead giveaway that they haven't really given it much thought and are just relying on whatever ESPN is saying about the topic.
 
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Dale said:
Saw this thread as well as his other post. What do people think, is our media so lazy and not passionate about ND that NONE of them have published an attempted exposé or were they told to hold off on such things by ND?

They basically all sat on their hands this week publishing nothing of note.
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Not only that, the II pod openly gave Bevacqua crap about going after the CFP committee at his presser Tuesday.

Also, almost every single podcast I listened to last week from our beat had the same tune “Miami getting in was the right call.” What are we doing here? ND was the better team for 5 weeks in the rankings, every single ranking system but the CFP has ND ranked in front of Miami.

I’m really surprised that Brice has been quiet because he went through the mock committee process and has been plugged in the most with the rankings. He’s not one to hold back, so this makes me think maybe they’ve been instructed to hold off?
 
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FWIrish4 said:
Not only that, the II pod openly gave Bevacqua crap about going after the CFP committee at his presser Tuesday.

Also, almost every single podcast I listened to last week from our beat had the same tune “Miami getting in was the right call.” What are we doing here? ND was the better team for 5 weeks in the rankings, every single ranking system but the CFP has ND ranked in front of Miami.

I’m really surprised that Brice has been quiet because he went through the mock committee process and has been plugged in the most with the rankings. He’s not one to hold back, so this makes me think maybe they’ve been instructed to hold off?
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He said on the II podcast that it was about "politics," and that he believes if UVA had beaten Duke, ND would have been in. The head-to-head argument was a red herring to ensure than an ACC team got in. I believe this is right, given what Phillips apparently knew and said in advance (that one ACC team would get in). In my view, both Miami and ND deserved to be in. After all, OU beat Bama and both of them got in.
 
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FWIrish4 said:
Not only that, the II pod openly gave Bevacqua crap about going after the CFP committee at his presser Tuesday.

Also, almost every single podcast I listened to last week from our beat had the same tune “Miami getting in was the right call.” What are we doing here? ND was the better team for 5 weeks in the rankings, every single ranking system but the CFP has ND ranked in front of Miami.

I’m really surprised that Brice has been quiet because he went through the mock committee process and has been plugged in the most with the rankings. He’s not one to hold back, so this makes me think maybe they’ve been instructed to hold off?
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Or Brice would like to maintain his status among contacts. Pretty common quid pro quo agreement within journalism. Brice going scorched earth on the committee would undoubtedly get him black listed. So self preservation kicks in and he stays quiet or deflects. Just speculation.
 
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NDQuebec said:
SIAP but here is another link which analyzes why ND should have made the playoffs:


Not sure who wrote it but it seems to be a thorough statistical analysis.
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I recommend everyone read this. It was written extremely well.

This is exactly what Bevacqua should have presented during his press tour last week. Just full on PowerPoint presentation.

Just truly incredible what the committee did:

“The gap between Notre Dame and the second-best snub (2022 Penn State at 8.00) is a full ranking spot. No team with a profile this strong has ever been left outside the top 10.

Until now.”

“It's not that Notre Dame usually comes out ahead. It's that in nearly 97% of scenarios, they're the #1 team on the bubble—and in the remaining 3%, they're still #2 or #3. There is no combination of philosophical weights that drops them to #4. Zero out of 194,480.

Go all-in on wins only? Notre Dame is top 3. Weight margin of victory at 100%? Notre Dame is #1. Pure predictive efficiency? Notre Dame is #1 by a mile. Trust only the human polls? Notre Dame is still ahead of every bubble team that made it.

The math doesn't allow for the outcome the committee produced.”
 
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NDQuebec said:
SIAP but here is another link which analyzes why ND should have made the playoffs:


Not sure who wrote it but it seems to be a thorough statistical analysis.
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This is incredible and needs to be sent out far and wide. Every single media member needs to read this as mandatory reading and then ask themselves why ND, despite all of this, still got left out. The answers are obvious, yet no one wants to get into that snake pit, apparently.
 
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FWIrish4 said:
Not only that, the II pod openly gave Bevacqua crap about going after the CFP committee at his presser Tuesday.

Also, almost every single podcast I listened to last week from our beat had the same tune “Miami getting in was the right call.” What are we doing here? ND was the better team for 5 weeks in the rankings, every single ranking system but the CFP has ND ranked in front of Miami.

I’m really surprised that Brice has been quiet because he went through the mock committee process and has been plugged in the most with the rankings. He’s not one to hold back, so this makes me think maybe they’ve been instructed to hold off?
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Much of ND’s beat coverage seems to be embarrassed about ND fan reaction and isn’t particularly interested in ND’s case. This is in stark contrast to the overt advocacy of every other team’s affiliated reporters and analysts.
 
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NDQuebec said:
SIAP but here is another link which analyzes why ND should have made the playoffs:


Not sure who wrote it but it seems to be a thorough statistical analysis.
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I uploaded this into Google Notebook LM and it created a podcast for me. It's something I plan on sharing with everyone I know. But first....I need to add a few more bullet points to the discussion: Lack of recusal, ESPN ownership of the CFP rankings show/Playoff games/SEC/ACC/Big12 among a few other things. Does anyone have any good source material on that? Idk if I can upload Brady Quinn's youtube talks but he's talked about a lot of this. Any links would be helpful.
 
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IrishTusker said:
He said on the II podcast that it was about "politics," and that he believes if UVA had beaten Duke, ND would have been in. The head-to-head argument was a red herring to ensure than an ACC team got in. I believe this is right, given what Phillips apparently knew and said in advance (that one ACC team would get in). In my view, both Miami and ND deserved to be in. After all, OU beat Bama and both of them got in.
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Yeah, Brice seemed adamant about that point. As a fan, I tend to think ND was screwed either way. The way it unfolded, the CFP was going w/ “you can’t punish teams…err Bama…for getting non-competitive in their CCG”. Had UVA won, they’d be in & then the CFP would’ve buckled to pressure regarding H2H & Miami gets in too. As ND fans, we like to think it was sinister & a way for ESPN/SEC to show ND they better join the cartel or else. I think we also have to consider that the CFP committee are fallible humans who at the end of the day are people pleasers who are going to follow which way the wind blows. I suspect it was a combo of these things but we’ll never know & regardless of the mountain of evidence that ND was one of the most deserving teams, you’ll never convince the casuals & the haters.
 
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Another part of the problem is that the selection Committee has been talking out of both sides of their mouths regarding CCGs. My take is that they won't give a clear answer on how much they matter because they want to reserve the right to have them matter on a case-by-case basis. I get that to a certain extent. Duke should not get any Championship consideration because they won the ACC. But the Committee can't come out and say that CCGs don't matter at all because teams will either rest their star players and tank the game or try to opt out of the game entirely (if the conference allows it). People keep saying Notre Dame gets screwed/punished for not being in a conference but I can make an argument that Alabama almost got screwed by being in one. If 'Bama wasn't in the CCG and Georgia bitch-slapped around some other SEC team like Ole Miss or Texas, 'Bama would have been golden, not having to risk their ranking in a meaningless game. Instead, the Tide got pantsed and the Committee had to twist itself into pretzel-shaped logic to justify keeping them in the rankings so their conference affiliation didn't hurt their chances. It's a little abstract, but I can make the case.
 
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Black Irish said:
Another part of the problem is that the selection Committee has been talking out of both sides of their mouths regarding CCGs. My take is that they won't give a clear answer on how much they matter because they want to reserve the right to have them matter on a case-by-case basis. I get that to a certain extent. Duke should not get any Championship consideration because they won the ACC. But the Committee can't come out and say that CCGs don't matter at all because teams will either rest their star players and tank the game or try to opt out of the game entirely (if the conference allows it). People keep saying Notre Dame gets screwed/punished for not being in a conference but I can make an argument that Alabama almost got screwed by being in one. If 'Bama wasn't in the CCG and Georgia bitch-slapped around some other SEC team like Ole Miss or Texas, 'Bama would have been golden, not having to risk their ranking in a meaningless game. Instead, the Tide got pantsed and the Committee had to twist itself into pretzel-shaped logic to justify keeping them in the rankings so their conference affiliation didn't hurt their chances. It's a little abstract, but I can make the case.
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The problem is with a political committee there is no objective criteria because they set out with predetermined outcomes in mind and construct post hoc justifications for their actions regardless of whether they're consistent or logical or not.
 
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Dale said:
Quinn is the only media member with the balls and desire to continue to beat NDs drum

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In this instance, I like that he focused on B1G vs SEC/ACC/ESPN. No mention of ND which is unnecessary in this critique. He lays it out perfectly & throws in the caveat that even if it’s not true, it’s shaky enough to lead to conspiracy theories & question the CFP credibility.
 
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BleedBlueGold said:
This has basically been my jumping off point with anyone who's been trying to debate me in my personal life. I simply ask them to explain why they believe the CFP committee is capable of getting that right and the other 15 polls got it wrong (including Vegas). They almost unanimously will defer to H2H vs Miami. It's a dead giveaway that they haven't really given it much thought and are just relying on whatever ESPN is saying about the topic.
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It has been quite the nicely packaged narrative that keeps most unthinking folks falling right in line with it, and continues to hide the real story about the AL CCG screw over and the bigger ?s about the integrity of the CFP committee, the SEC bias, and the influence of the ESPN $
 
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There is a part of me that feels like there is a committee member out there upset with all the ND hate because they "did everything they could to get ND in, including ranking Miami #18, and all ND needed was Virginia to come through".
 
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I know for a lot of people involved in CFB 1993 isn’t relevant to them but I lived it and ND beat FSU in the game of the century and while FSU made it close we dominated FSU kind of like Miami looked better than us this year in our H2H game. When it came time to determine the national champ they gave it to FSU with the same record and a loss to ND H2H. This never gets mentioned but should. ND looked like the team that improved over the season. Not Miami.
 
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Huntr said:
Dumb message about being sad there was no CFB this past Saturday.

The community note pointed out the Army-Navy game and like 5 lower level games.
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Wasn't there even a bowl game between Boise and Washington? Does the LA Bowl not matter???
 
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BeatSC said:
I know for a lot of people involved in CFB 1993 isn’t relevant to them but I lived it and ND beat FSU in the game of the century and while FSU made it close we dominated FSU kind of like Miami looked better than us this year in our H2H game. When it came time to determine the national champ they gave it to FSU with the same record and a loss to ND H2H. This never gets mentioned but should. ND looked like the team that improved over the season. Not Miami.
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Correct. This has been memory holed by OUR fans and media for some reason.

As a fan, that month was AS MUCH tumult as I have ever felt as a sports fan. Ever. It beats out this situation by 10x. We were absolutely screwed over by everyone involved, and yes, ESPN was in the middle of all if it then, too.

I have always claimed that natty, will always claim that natty, and go off like a motherfucker any time anyone brings it up. That was the single worst heist in the history of college sports. And all of it just slob on Bobby Bowdens knob. It was fucking disgusting and disgraceful.
 
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jpachuta33 said:


& This is the bullshit that they wanted to parade ND around with, after they conveniently left them out of the CFP, after telling them for 5+ weeks that they were included in…
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I'm having trouble picturing MFMF up there with a smile on his face warming up a pop tart to eat it in front of the cameras. What I can picture is him rolling his eyes out of his skull.
 
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jpachuta33 said:


& This is the bullshit that they wanted to parade ND around with, after they conveniently left them out of the CFP, after telling them for 5+ weeks that they were included in…
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This is exactly why people are pissed ND skipped out. They don't give a single fuck about the Pop Tarts Bowl, they simply wanted the optics of this so they could laugh at ND. Deprived of that, they lash out.
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And shut up their bandwagon riding fanbase. Is there a more front running fanbase than Miami? And they are obsessed w/ ND. The CFP Committee & ESPN media really did a number on them.
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I don't think I've seen a single tweet or post from a Miami fan discussing their game with A&M, everything is still about ND.
 
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