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2025 College Football Playoffs
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Thought so but y’all know more than I do so just checking with the experts.
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How is everybody feeling? Genuinely asking. I can usually shake a bad loss by Sunday morning but this nonsense is sticking with me. I’m not sulking around how I did on Sunday, but the anger/need for retribution isn’t dissipating.
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This is going deep state controversy, but what if the SEC worked back channels to frame the ND vs Miami narrative in order to put one last nail in the ACC coffin? If they could create a rift between ND and the ACC, could that be the final straw to break the camels back? I doubt it goes this deep but the incessant Miami vs ND talk seemed very pointed and maybe the ACC took the bait just as they wanted.
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This is what i imagine Creeds ramblings looked like when they let him write a blog that was just a Word file on The Office
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Usually with situations like this, after thinking through the variables and trying to see the other side, I'm generally level headed and can come to terms with it. This is different. The more I think about it, the more angry I get. And the real reason? This team was good enough to win a national championship, and everyone knew it - not just ND people.
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Do you smell burnt toast right now?
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I do love the post-snub rage and intent to do something about our affiliations for moving fwd to I'm assuming assure more big team matchups.
However, the depressing part is that I was really looking fwd to going to some select pubs for playoff season, sitting down with a nice sour ale beer, and watching some ND football, hoping we would have a 2025 repeat of last year with a "we told you mother f---ers we belong in the CFP" attitude and some solid beat downs of both SEC and B1G teams.
Alas, that's not happening and so that, alas, is kinda so depressing.
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I’m still stuck on this too. Even though it’s not realistic to expect anything soon, I want ND very openly going scorched earth against the ACC and ESPN.
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The racket is all about money. ND has to fight back in kind.
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This is it for me. Great memories watching with family and friends last year. We were making possible Rose Bowl plans. No mas.
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Matt Mitchell is actually hilarious. I follow him. His SEC Roll call comes out every week and always has me rolling.
His comedy is rooted in southern culture and some of it is over my head being from Indiana…but he’s worth a watch.
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It’s hard to move on when I can’t go online or turn on the TV without seeing someone talking about Notre Dame and the playoffs, opting out of the bowl, “join a conference,” etc.
I thought it was bad online leading up to the final rankings but this has reached a whole new level.
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The whole debacle really has soured me to the entire sport.
I’ve watched CFB for about 20 years, and wasn’t even an ND fan that entire time. There has always been some controversy around the BCS, and who’s in/out in the early playoff days. The mask fully slipping to the process now being a fully choreographed WWE-style script has made me not-care pretty much overnight.
I’ll watch ND football, but I’ll probably cut consumption of the category by ~80% next year.
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College football is far and away my favorite sport. I will watch all day from 12-12 if I have the chance. But, I can’t stomach watching any of the rest of this season the way it all went down. It’s gross.
However…hope springs eternal and I’ll be ready to get hurt again by August.
However…hope springs eternal and I’ll be ready to get hurt again by August.
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Only thing that worries me is we pretty much have to be perfect next season. Anything less than 12-0 will prolly result in another shafting and more mockery. We have to go full Thanos next season on the college football world or we won’t be taken seriously.
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Yeah this one is going to sting for a bit. The thing with losses is you can usually find some semblance of closure… a play we should’ve made, things to improve on for next time, etc.
This one stings because there’s none of that to explain why we were left out. Greed and corruption ultimately won out, and there’s nothing to show that it won’t happen again. Sure, we lost the two games (one on a BS no-call), but we absolutely dominated the rest of the schedule and were made to believe we were a playoff team the entire rest of the way.
The innate desire for closure is probably why some of ND faithful have even had a pivot on the final Miami ranking. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it’s trash that we were ahead of them for weeks and nothing changes on championship week, aside from BYU putting us side by side. But, at the end of the day, Miami won the H2H. I don’t agree with the decision, but it’s semi-defensible.
But Alabama? Passing us in the rankings because of a “gutsy” win over 5-7 Auburn? Staying ahead of us after having -3 rushing yards and getting absolutely throttled by Georgia for a 3rd loss? You can’t justify it. It’s absolute theft and we will never find a good answer, no matter how hard we search for it.
It makes you question the direction of the sport, and, on some levels, society as a whole. As tough as it is for us fans, I can’t imagine how the team feels; this will stick with them for the rest of their lives.
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I want to believe. But, man, no Love, No Price, WR group is still sketchy…. I want the bombing of Berlin, but I am bracing for the fall of Saigon
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They would have been the 5 seed if they beat AnM. 11-1 would work. If Oklahoma lost to bama 10-2 would have been enough this year.
11 wins gets them in. 10 in most years
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I'm pretty sure 11-1 and we're okay. Go look at TTU's schedule.
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It's mostly about line play and the QB. We never have "elite" WRs.
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Who would better off to have a stroke Mike Farrell or Paul Finebaum? At least one of them would shut up.
Can't imagine why they and the CFB media in general have been acting like we kicked their dog since Sunday afternoon. I mean, ND is irrelevant and the Pop Tarts mascot is a bigger draw than ND according to Stewie Mandel, so why is everyone so mad about it?
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Im sure im not alone, but i dont have many IRL people to vent this thought with
Notre Dame is gonna come out next year like a villain serial killer
Not like Dexter who was an anti-hero type... More like the Son of Sam who nobody sees coming but terrifies them in a way they cant sleep at night
Notre Dame is gonna come out next year like a villain serial killer
Not like Dexter who was an anti-hero type... More like the Son of Sam who nobody sees coming but terrifies them in a way they cant sleep at night
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Does anyone have any idea what happened to the Yurachek Golic FD interview that was going to happen?
Haven’t heard a thing about it since Golic mentioned it a few days ago.
Did ESPN sweep in and say no way? Or Yurachek wimp out?
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When I saw Alabama flash on screen at 9 I knew that meant we were cooked because it hit me right then that the process wasn't honest and this had been rigged. The switch up of the rankings the Tuesday prior and the fishy justification, it all just clicked into place. I was angry about it, I'm still angry. But, ultimately, life goes on. Good or bad. "This too shall pass," is the rule of life and we move forward. There is nothing I as an individual can really do about it other than voice my displeasure, but I have to trust that the ND leadership is working to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.
In the end, I feel the most of the team as their story will remain unwritten and will go into the great pile of "what if" teams from throughout the ages.
The hate and everything that's all over social media and the non-stop hate campaign waged by ESPN, that kind of shit gives me life. It means we're trending in the right direction.
Pete Bevacqua said the rankings up until the final ones are a "farce." Where I disagree, is that all of the rankings, including (especially?) the final ones are a farce. It's a political process and the CFP is an ESPN invitational tournament. You can't really let that shit get you down.
And if you can't shake it, the feelings of anger or whatever emotions you carry, as Dostoyevsky (is alleged to have) said, "the darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer to God."
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Agreed. ND had absolutely miserable luck when it came to upsets.
It was absolutely insane seeing all these near upsets all go against ND.
ND at 11-1 is in. A&M was fine at 11-1, despite playing next to nobody after ND, only for them to drop their next toughest game to Texas.
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Anyone else wonder if Bavacqua knew this was going to happen a couple of weeks ago, but has to save face and pretend to be shocked.
I knew the second they bumped Bama after the close Auburn game it was a distinct possibility. When you factor the ACC campaigning for Miami and the Bama bump Bevacqua has a ton of connections and he certainly is no dummy. One would assume if us normies saw this as a possibility, the freakin AD at Notre Dame must've been warned, figured things out ahead of time.
Figure a deal was made that ACC would not be screwed after what happened to FSU 2 years ago and of course they decided Bama was in no matter what a few weeks ago.
If so, hope he got some concessions for the future. A Love Heisman trophy would be nice for starters(yeah, I get that is prob not how things work unless it's more corrupt than I thought)...
I knew the second they bumped Bama after the close Auburn game it was a distinct possibility. When you factor the ACC campaigning for Miami and the Bama bump Bevacqua has a ton of connections and he certainly is no dummy. One would assume if us normies saw this as a possibility, the freakin AD at Notre Dame must've been warned, figured things out ahead of time.
Figure a deal was made that ACC would not be screwed after what happened to FSU 2 years ago and of course they decided Bama was in no matter what a few weeks ago.
If so, hope he got some concessions for the future. A Love Heisman trophy would be nice for starters(yeah, I get that is prob not how things work unless it's more corrupt than I thought)...
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