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What concessions should he have made to USC? Why should ND make all the concessions? If they don't want to continue to rivalry in good faith, fine. Whatever.

I don't expect Freeman to leave, but it's also possible he is in the group of coaches that dislikes the sudden changes in college sports. Jay Wright, Tony Bennett, Saban, etc. The CFP selection process makes the NFL look like the most honest enterprise on the planet.

I don't care whether we stay independent or not, but I'm pretty sure this is about USC, not us.

No, because the evidence suggests the committee decided in advance that 10-2 OU, Bama, and Miami were in ahead of us (at least if UVA lost the ACCCG). A game vs. BYU wouldn't have put our SOS ahead of OU or Bama's.

We got left out of the CFP for a bunch of reasons, but I don't think a weak schedule was one of them. Look at OSU, IU, Oregon, or TTU's schedules. The issue was going 10-2 rather than 12-0 or 11-1.

Did the BYU AD not get that memo? USC has been looking to get out of the series for months.

ESPN saying the "ND-BYU series is putting the USC series on hold"- uh, is that going to be the journalist narrative here? No, USC cancelled the series and we set up a series with BYU to fill the spot.

Not to pick on anybody, but the ND beat was confident it would be extended at least for two years iirc. Makes me wary about their other predictions

That caused us to give up 41 points (at home) to an A&M team that just scored 3 points in their playoff game?

Isn't ND's revenue from NBC going to double next year?

I'd really appreciate a moment-by-moment updating odds tracker on the homepage. Can someone set that up?

I disagree. The point of the tiebreaker is to maximize the number of playoff teams. If UVA had won, maybe they get two teams in, as stInd01 said. Now, as it happens, we have evidence that the ACC knew it advance only 1 ACC team would get in (UVA if they won, Miami if Duke won). The ACC...

This is like saying because a Jeep will not be perfect at helping me drive through tough terrain, it is no better than my Accord. A computer-based ranking would include human elements (e.g., the AP and Coaches' polls) and would be far better than the current system.

ND got left out for a bunch of reasons, but the G5 auto-bids are definitely one of them.

Right, the point of the auto-bids is to get teams in that would not otherwise get in. And from what I have read, the SEC is content with simply putting in the top 12 teams. It's the Big 10 that wants auto-bids. I don't know if ND took a position on this when the whole thing was being developed...

Honestly, who cares? Does the rest of CFB normally love us?

Yeah, the seeding means nothing. Sagarin had Miami higher than A&M and Bama higher than OU. If these teams are going to prove something, it would be in the next round.

Did MF say something that upset them?

Ok. Does how we look affect something? They can talk about ND as much as they want. Maybe they should be focused on OSU.

I'll give them all the credit they want. Has nothing to do with us making money for a conference/network that campaigned for our exclusion for the playoff.