All part of that network’s way to influence stupid people into believing ND is bad and the SEC is just the best. It’s like watching mainstream news talk about whoever the president may be. The narrative for ESPN is boo ND.
I do think they were the best SEC team all season.
Still irritates the hell out of me. This is my Roman empire for the 2025 committee screw job.
It’s a sham, unfortunately. A farce of a playoff and championship. As a football fan, I think we are all robbed by ND not being able to participate—yet James Madison, Tulane, Alabama, Oklahoma, and hell, Texas Tech to an extent get to trot out there as cannon fodder. Compete disgrace.
Stick around, guy. Celebrate feeling what it’s like to root for a team in the post-BK glow.
Nobody besides @pumpdog20 actually would put that.
If I was the committee, I think it would have looked like this...going into the postseason, of course.
They had one really good win, by a fg, the best among the 2 loss teams. But everything else showed why they were 5th in conference and clearly not a threat to the #1 team.
Bama beat Vanderbilt by 16 and definitely deserves a bid over Vanderbilt in this scenario.
I thought about that and wouldn't argue that too much. Vanderbilt definitely looked better at season's end, though. And that would play a part in my rankings. The Bama/Vandy game was much closer than that in reality and Bama was playing their best ball then.
The only reason I'm interested in expansion to 16 teams is it greatly diminishes the likelihood of a situation like this year happening. A playoff system in a sport like CFB should include every single team that has a realistic shot of winning it all. If that means we get a few more tomato cans, so be it. Easy trade off. Ideally, zero autobids, but I know that won't happen. With 5 autobids and a 16 team field, the first two out would have been Michigan and Utah IIRC. That's acceptable. Neither team was winning a playoff game.
You have to remember that this year, autobids went to the five highest ranked conference winners. We can speculate all we want about the 12 best teams. Contractually, can’t change much except us ole miss, Oklahoma, Alabama, Oregon? (matched our best win), and untested Texas Tech. Going against a corrupt committee that had no ND representation due to some book writer being excluded, we didn’t stand a chance.
He's the type of dude that if he plays for your team you'd run thru a wall for him
The year we lost to UGA the entire conference's 2nd best win was Fresno State (Bama). Of course the SEC got all of the credit.
Yeah really boring
