2025 College Football Playoffs

[Notre Dame Joe]

ND should absolutely be ranked above Oklahoma. They are ass. Their offense is a total joke.

You mean Ole Miss? Okla has a good OOC win over Michigan, that could turn into a great one. The rest of the SEC has only beaten themselves.

 

[EvilleIrish]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

I think at the end of the day the committe will ask themselves, "who can actually win a championship?" And the Irish are on that short list.

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

Possible Big Ten Championship Game matchups (2025) and how they happen:

1. Indiana vs Ohio State
   • Any scenario where Ohio State beats Michigan.
   • Indiana vs Purdue result doesn’t matter.
   • Oregon vs Washington result doesn’t matter.
2. Indiana vs Oregon
   • Indiana beats Purdue.
   • Oregon beats Washington.
   • Michigan beats Ohio State.
3. Indiana vs Michigan
   • Indiana beats Purdue.
   • Oregon loses to Washington.
   • Michigan beats Ohio State.
4. Oregon vs Michigan
   • Indiana loses to Purdue.
   • Oregon beats Washington.
   • Michigan beats Ohio State.
5. Michigan vs Ohio State
   • Indiana loses to Purdue.
   • Oregon loses to Washington.
   • Michigan beats Ohio State.

Oregon has a tiebreaker over Michigan?

 

[MPClinton22]

In looking at the remaining schedules, I believe ND’s best chance of moving up the rankings and hosting a game comes from BYU losing today and then beating TTU in the Big 12 Championship.

Oregon loses next week at Washington, we slide up to 8

 

[jprue24]

Oregon has a tiebreaker over Michigan?

Yes, they have the "conference-opponent win-percentage tiebreak".

 

[stlnd01]

This week solidifies ND as a playoff team. They simply cant be left out because they are a top 5 team in the country if you watch football.

Watching today, really watching the last nine games, it would be an absurd disappointment for us not to be in the playoffs, just based on how good this team is, and I think the committee will see that as well.

 

[burmafrd1944]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

so are you convinced tomorrow will come?

 

[317Irish]

Oregon loses next week at Washington, we slide up to 8

True, or if ole miss loses the egg bowl. I’m saying those aren’t likely to happen.

 

[TorontoGold]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

What?

 

[Bane]

In our last 3 games we've won 156-32 with 13 of those points coming on Make a Wish TDs with a few seconds left in the game. Total and utter domination.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

No offense but speak the King's English, please. What in the hell are you talking about?

 

[T-Boone]

What?

he is saying he is not convinced we are in. How fuckin hard is it?

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

No offense but speak the King's English, please. What in the hell are you talking about?

Voice to text. He meant Our path is not naught.

 

[greyhammer90]

he is saying he is not convinced we are in. How fuckin hard is it?

It's not not not hard if "hard" was not hard.

 

[TorontoGold]

he is saying he is not convinced we are in. How fuckin hard is it?

Of course you would understand it.

Still waiting for your great explanation on why the ACC would want Navy to join, drop a conference game, and how it would be in ND's best interest to join.

 

[SDIrishFan]

It's not not not hard if "hard" was not hard.

That’s what she said…

 

[Rudy89]

We are a better team than Miami currently, but if our bad start to the year comes back to haunt us and keeps us out…I begrudgingly understand why we were left out.

 

[T-Boone]

Of course you would understand it.

Still waiting for your great explanation on why the ACC would want Navy to join, drop a conference game, and how it would be in ND's best interest to join.

I barely remember saying that.
How is it you do?

Weirdo.

 

[ColoradoIrish]

I barely remember saying that.
How is it you do?

Weirdo.

The tism

 

[TorontoGold]

I barely remember saying that.
How is it you do?

Weirdo.

Objectively one of the dumbest things said on this forum. No explanation, no follow up, just taking a shit in the middle of the room and leaving.

 

[NDPhilly]

Miami fans are crashing out ab the framing of their win lol

 

[ulukinatme]

Miami fans are crashing out ab the framing of their win lol

It was 3-8 VT playing without a HC basically, so the fact they were able to cut it to 10 late is probably the right framing there.

 

[dankgesang]

just taking a shit in the middle of the room and leaving.

You say that like it's a bad thing

 

[NDPhilly]

Realizing All of Big 12 teams that we are supposed to respect played absolute dog shit OOC. Have to think this is a league wide strategy now with 9 conference games to just have teams rack up wins and hope a 10 or 11 win team that might actually be a pretender can sneak in as an at large. I

They also generally don’t have a lot of recruiting talent - The highest rated team is TT at 29 in the 247 team talent composite. Kentucky and Arkansas would be the most “talented” teams in the B12. We’re supposed to believe these teams are totally outperforming in ways everyone else around them talent wise (outside of IU) can’t?

OOC games among Top B12 teams:
Texas Tech - 0 P4 OOC games.
BYU - W v Stanford
Utah - W v UCLA
ASU - L at Miss State
Houston - O P4 OOC games

Abysmal - Most of these teams haven’t played a roster that’s even in the top 25 of the 247 talent composite either. How are we supposed to assume that they’d match up well against the other playoff contenders? We truly have no way of knowing.

The metrics love TT and Utah which is doing a ton of heavy lifting for them, but I’m skeptical that they can properly rate them there’s so little crossover wifh other playoff contenders.

 

[ulukinatme]

Of course Miami can't stop crying about ND, but now they're all saying that Syracuse threw the game just to make ND look better than Miami They've got some serious ND derangement syndrome.

 

[Crazy Balki]

You mean Ole Miss? Okla has a good OOC win over Michigan, that could turn into a great one. The rest of the SEC has only beaten themselves.

You mean that Michigan team that got routed by USC, whom we trounced?

 

[NDWarrior]

Oregon loses next week at Washington, we slide up to 8

I watched a bit of the WA-UCLA game tonight and had forgotten about WA, which is a decent 8-3 team.

Despite how much we all wanted USC to knock off OR this afternoon, maybe WA will be the team to do it.
There are at least a few years over the past 15 years where WA upset a one-loss or undefeated OR team and spoiled their season, so who knows, maybe OR will be caught sleeping and it will happen again this year...

 

[GoldenBoy3]

I’m still not convinced there’s not not a path for us to get left out.

I have gone back and forth on this so much. Michigan beating OSU, BYU beating TT in the B12CG, Miami being left out of the ACCCG, Bama winning the SECCG are all awful scenarios, hell they could very well flip flop us and Miami. At the end of the day, we did this to ourselves by having no semblance of a defense in the first two games and starting out 0-2. Yesterday's win definitely had to raise some eyebrows in the committee room as far as backing their original thought that ND is on a different tier than the other bubble teams. Ideally OK drops the game against LSU or Miami loses to Pitt or Bama gets Dueced on in the Iron Bowl. I may be alone on this thought but Utah and BYU winning only improves our odds by keeping us distanced from Miami ranking wise. Vandy could very well beat Tennessee and then lead frog back over Miami. I do think that if ND stomps Stanford that it forces the committees hand and puts a red hot team on a 10 game heater into the playoffs.

 

[GoldenBoy3]

I do think that Miami really hurt their odds/resume yesterday. Hopefully the committee can see through the desperate garbage time TD they scored at the end because before that, it was a 10 point game against a 3-7 team who gained the same amount of total yards.