College Football Playoff Invitational by ESPN

T-Boone · 2026-11-10T03:22:00-0500

Teams that should be independent: ND, Miami, Bama, Texas, USC, OSU.

Polish Leppy 22 · 2026-11-10T07:24:58-0500

Huntr said:
lmaoooo

The day college football regular season died. What a damn shame to ruin the best part of the sport.

Congrats to the perennial 8-4 7-5 teams who can battle over a "playoff" spot.

BrianWalsh · 2026-11-10T07:40:22-0500

Polish Leppy 22 said:
The day college football regular season died. What a damn shame to ruin the best part of the sport.

Congrats to the perennial 8-4 7-5 teams who can battle over a "playoff" spot.

This could have been very simple: if all of the networks had made clear that they were not interested in paying for six more games, CFP would have taken the hint. Instead, ESPN personalities openly say it is not wanted, nobody wants to see it all the while their executives are paying $1.75B for the rights. Slop. Pure slop

arrowryan · 2026-11-10T07:45:52-0500

Please, someone explain to me why Notre Dame shouldn’t be ranked better than 7 tonight. Yes, I know there’s not a functioning brain on the committee.

#6 should be the worst possible ranking for Notre Dame tonight.

TNUtoNotreDame · 2026-11-10T07:50:11-0500

arrowryan said:
Please, someone explain to me why Notre Dame shouldn’t be ranked better than 7 tonight. Yes, I know there’s not a functioning brain on the committee.

#6 should be the worst possible ranking for Notre Dame tonight.

We’re not SEC, auto-disqualifying

arrowryan · 2026-11-10T08:01:30-0500

TNUtoNotreDame said:
We’re not SEC, auto-disqualifying

Hunter Yourasack said Notre Dame didn’t have that signature win yet. Now they have a better win than everyone, besides maybe Texas. We’ll see how he contradicts himself and still puts sorry ass IU over Notre Dame.

NDMatt91 · 2026-11-10T08:02:31-0500

arrowryan said:
Hunter Yourasack said Notre Dame didn’t have that signature win yet. Now they have a better win than everyone, besides maybe Texas. We’ll see how he contradicts himself and still puts sorry ass IU over Notre Dame.

ND also had a gutsy 4th down call

FWIrish4 · 2026-11-10T08:05:24-0500

NDMatt91 said:
ND also had a gutsy 4th down call

Two of them!

InKellyWeTrust · 2026-11-10T08:22:07-0500

Notre Dame should be no lower than 4th, but there's no logic behind the committee so who knows.

PutuporShutup · 2026-11-10T08:22:12-0500

arrowryan said:
Hunter Yourasack said Notre Dame didn’t have that signature win yet. Now they have a better win than everyone, besides maybe Texas. We’ll see how he contradicts himself and still puts sorry ass IU over Notre Dame.

There's no valid justification for ND not to be 4th but what they will probably say

ND beat Miami without Toney (may even bring up catch although they didn't bring up our game with BYU still isn't over)
Alabama has now won on the road at both kentucky and LSU
Indiana was on a bye so they can't be jumped (lol)
Texas just won on the road at missouri (there 2 losses to unranked teams don't matter)
UCLA remains undefeated and

ND should be 4th IMO but I can see them anywhere between 4-8

arrowryan · 2026-11-10T08:27:00-0500

PutuporShutup said:
There's no valid justification for ND not to be 4th but what they will probably say

ND beat Miami without Toney (may even bring up catch although they didn't bring up our game with BYU still isn't over)
Alabama has now won on the road at both kentucky and LSU
Indiana was on a bye so they can't be jumped (lol)
Texas just won on the road at missouri (there 2 losses to unranked teams don't matter)
UCLA remains undefeated and

ND should be 4th IMO but I can see them anywhere between 4-8

If they are 8 then there needs to be an investigation

rtrn2glory · 2026-11-10T08:32:40-0500

I wouldn't be shocked to see them in the 7 - 10 range. They honestly have found any reason to keep them at a win or go home scenario the past 2-3 years. I expect nothing less tonight.

NotKoon · 2026-11-10T08:33:35-0500

No point at getting mad or worked up at anything these idiots do. At this point we all know the score. I for one will have a good laugh when Miami is 1 spot ahead of Notre Dame, invalidating the last line of bullshit they spewed last season that has yet to be invalidated

CousinEddy · 2026-11-10T08:42:31-0500

I know we all want ND to be top 4 (and honestly should be) but fuck it, let them sit us at 5-8 and let’s have an another bomb ass home playoff game! Was at that IU game and it was unbelievable! Another plus to that is we can take home that sweet, sweet playoff home game money and say FU to ESPN while skipping to the bank

Fbolt · 2026-11-10T08:47:05-0500

The committee members are crooks, beholden to their conferences. I'd be surprised if ND is 6 or better.

jerseyborn1971 · 2026-11-10T09:01:49-0500

irishff1014 said:
The bracket doesn’t look bad but I hope it doesn’t water the playoffs down. There probably going to be multiple 4-loss teams. I just don’t like that.

The committee can’t get 12 right. Why do people think they could get 24 right?

The committee can be even lazier now. They don't really have to do anything except watch few of then middling SEC and B10 teams in the last few weeks of the year. They'll have 15 teams they already have decided year in and year out. The order of them is inconsequential now.

TNUtoNotreDame · 2026-11-10T09:03:08-0500

jerseyborn1971 said:
The committee can be even lazier now. They don't really have to do anything except watch few of then middling SEC and B10 teams in the last few weeks of the year. They'll have 15 teams they already have decided year in and year out. The order of them is inconsequential now.

Pretty easy... The SEC gets 10 teams and the Big gets 8...

jerseyborn1971 · 2026-11-10T09:03:19-0500

I don't a want a bye. With no conference championship game, that's a loooong layoff between the last game of the regular season and the 2nd round fo the playoffs. Better to get a 10, 11 or 12 seed at home as a warm up.

ab2cmiller · 2026-11-10T09:04:41-0500

jerseyborn1971 said:
The committee can be even lazier now. They don't really have to do anything except watch few of then middling SEC and B10 teams in the last few weeks of the year. They'll have 15 teams they already have decided year in and year out. The order of them is inconsequential now.

It's obviously still very consequential. Top 8 teams get byes. #9-#16 teams get to host first round. Teams and fans will obviously care about that.

jerseyborn1971 · 2026-11-10T09:09:13-0500

Teams with byes are 1-7 so far. Math would say its not an advantage.

PutuporShutup · 2026-11-10T09:11:19-0500

I don't agree with this at all, and there really is no justification but my guess is ND ends up 7th tonight,

Georgia
Utah
Bama
Miami
Texas
Indiana
ND
UCLA
Tenn
Kentucky
TT
WF
BYU

I just don't know if they will drop the #1 team down after a loss to #11 when they were without one of their 2 top players. I think they should, but not sure they will.

I don't think they'll let us pass Texas and Bama since they did have two good road wins.

Indiana/UCLA are the ones that i can see the committee maybe letting us jump, but not sure since Indiana was #4 inexplicably.

It should be

Georgia
Utah
ND
Miami
UCLA
Bama
Texas
Indiana
Tenn
TT
WF
Kentucky
BYU

jerseyborn1971 · 2026-11-10T09:15:20-0500

They aren't putting Miami ahead of ND. Not even this committee will do that. After last year, they know they will get DESTROYED if they did that.

notredomer23 · 2026-11-10T09:24:08-0500

PutuporShutup said:
I don't agree with this at all, and there really is no justification but my guess is ND ends up 7th tonight,

Georgia
Utah
Bama
Miami
Texas
Indiana
ND
UCLA
Tenn
Kentucky
TT
WF
BYU

I just don't know if they will drop the #1 team down after a loss to #11 when they were without one of their 2 top players. I think they should, but not sure they will.

I don't think they'll let us pass Texas and Bama since they did have two good road wins.

Indiana/UCLA are the ones that i can see the committee maybe letting us jump, but not sure since Indiana was #4 inexplicably.

It should be

Georgia
Utah
ND
Miami
UCLA
Bama
Texas
Indiana
Tenn
TT
WF
Kentucky
BYU

I don’t even care that much if ND is 7th. My problem will be if Indiana is in front of them. Is the signature win 6 points at home over Northwestern or the gritty 60 yard field goal to force OT against mighty Minnesota

LifelongFan · 2026-11-10T09:25:30-0500

There is no logical reason to have IU, Miami, or Texas over us so that is what I expect to happen. Switching from computer polls to a shadowy committee is the worst part of the expanded playoffs.

NorthDakota · 2026-11-10T09:26:13-0500

jerseyborn1971 said:
They aren't putting Miami ahead of ND. Not even this committee will do that. After last year, they know they will get DESTROYED if they did that.

Correct.

IRISHDODGER · 2026-11-10T09:27:02-0500

Dale said:
Clockwork

So naive but so is his viewership. Common sense tells us that the SEC teams who don’t play in CCG will also play 2 fewer games when you consider they play a scrimmage in mid-November vs an FCS team. Those should never count towards a P4 teams resume. Think of the attrition that teams like ND have experienced this season. Now imagine the attrition of a 63-scholarship FCS team playing in mid-Nov

LifelongFan · 2026-11-10T09:27:24-0500

Looking for logic on the committee is like asking reality tv show contestants to be nice to each other. The insanity is the point. This is Big Brother or MTV's Real World for sports fans.

PutuporShutup · 2026-11-10T09:30:16-0500

jerseyborn1971 said:
They aren't putting Miami ahead of ND. Not even this committee will do that. After last year, they know they will get DESTROYED if they did that.

Why? They absolutely can. They just need to not have them next to each other. That's easy for them

They're already doing it with Tenn and Bama since they aren't next to each other.

rtrn2glory · 2026-11-10T09:32:57-0500

Literally the only thing I am hoping for is that we've always passed the eyeball test to the committee it seems. now we actually have a win to back it up. That alone should move us into the top 5, but I'm not holding my breath.

ab2cmiller · 2026-11-10T09:34:17-0500

PutuporShutup said:
Why? They absolutely can. They just need to not have them next to each other. That's easy for them

They're already doing it with Tenn and Bama since they aren't next to each other.

Agreed that they obviously can.

But in doing so, they would have to ignore the head to head AND the entire rationale for placing ND at 11 was that they didn't have a signature win. Same will still apply to Miami.

Nobody obviously trusts the committee right now because they just twist things with contradictory justifications.

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