2025 College Football Playoffs

[Domina Nostra]

Please not BYU

 

[Me2SouthBend]

I still blame Suchner...I mean Buchner. 🤣

Fuck you. Ban worthy.

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Are people that happy to be proven right that they are gloating when we just got kicked in the nuts?

Seriously?!

Yes the trolls are.

 

[NorthDakota]

I'm done with college football until the playoff system is fixed. This level of corruption to protect Alabama is one of the most insane things I've witnessed. What is the fucking point of playing a whole season, if at the very end, a bunch of suits just say "thanks, but sorry, you're out, because we said so." I'm done.

ND needs to file a lawsuit against whomever they can. The amount of the money that cost the university should not go unnoticed. ND should not stand for being bullied. Take a stand.

Idk im not a big fan of litigation. Its a subjective process to pick the teams and ND opened themselves up to this happening by losing to Miami and TAMU. Would be a waste of time and money to sue over this.

 

[KMac151993]

Reject any bowl that is played on the E$PN networks.

 

[IrishTusker]

Idk im not a big fan of litigation. Its a subjective process to pick the teams and ND opened themselves up to this happening by losing to Miami and TAMU. Would be a waste of time and money to sue over this.

ND has plenty of money. And time. Two 10-2 teams and a 10-3 team that just lost by 21 (!) got in. Something has got to give.

 

[NormND_44]

These results are sickening truly. I’ve got nothing new to add just worth underlining How unbelievably stupid this is

 

[Bishop2b5]

Damien Harris and Mark Ingram both advocated for ND over Alabama

I don't disagree. I get why the committee put Bama in: you shouldn't be punished for playing the extra game in your conference CG. I get it. I can agree with it in some ways, but still think the playoffs should just be the 12 best teams. I don't think my guys played like they are yesterday. I'd rather ND have gotten in and Bama just gone to a decent bowl where we have a good chance to finish the season with a win.

 

[RDU Irish]

Conference collusion plain and simple. I discounted the conferences hating ND more than they hate the SEC. B1G and SEC are running the show and threw a bone at ACC to snub ND and take out the biggest threat to their empire before a single ball is hiked.

I would love to see the six degrees of Kevin Bacon on the biggest bettors on ND to miss the playoffs relative to this cabal of douchebags. Getting 10:1 odds with a little help from your friends is not going to be 100% clean guaranteed.

 

[NotKoon]

Reject any bowl that is played on the E$PN networks.

Sun Bowl or no Bowl

 

[RDU Irish]

Best news of the day - we clearly get to claim the 1993 championship today. Don't get it both ways dickheads.

 

[RDU Irish]

Sun Bowl or no Bowl

Call Vandy and see if they want to play in Vegas. Petition them to go independent.

 

[IrishinSyria]

Idk im not a big fan of litigation. Its a subjective process to pick the teams and ND opened themselves up to this happening by losing to Miami and TAMU. Would be a waste of time and money to sue over this.

I agree with you. BYU fans started floating this idea last week and I thought they were being a bunch of babies and while I’m more sympathetic to them now I still mostly think that.

That being said, the one thing litigation has to recommend it is discovery. The committee’s process is ridiculously opaque, and I would love to force them to make every single scrap of paper they used public.

 

[mrmcgrail]

I don't disagree. I get why the committee put Bama in: you shouldn't be punished for playing the extra game in your conference CG. I get it. I can agree with it in some ways, but still think the playoffs should just be the 12 best teams. I don't think my guys played like they are yesterday. I'd rather ND have gotten in and Bama just gone to a decent bowl where we have a good chance to finish the season with a win.

But then why play the game? Teams have always been punished for losing these games. The old format the ESPN heads would say it was all about eye test now it isn't and you can't punish people. It's all bullshit they had to put an ACC team in and Miami deserved it and they were never going to move bama even though the got destroyed like byu and byu dropped

 

[SighWillingham]

 

[Bane]

The worst part of all of this is I debased myself cheering for UGA for nothing.

 

[AvesEvo]

But then why play the game? Teams have always been punished for losing these games. The old format the ESPN heads would say it was all about eye test now it isn't and you can't punish people. It's all bullshit they had to put an ACC team in and Miami deserved it and they were never going to move bama even though the got destroyed like byu and byu dropped

Yup. OSU also dropped. Only team that wasn't punished is bama.

 

[Bane]

I agree with you. BYU fans started floating this idea last week and I thought they were being a bunch of babies and while I’m more sympathetic to them now I still mostly think that.

That being said, the one thing litigation has to recommend it is discovery. The committee’s process is ridiculously opaque, and I would love to force them to make every single scrap of paper they used public.

I think that committee deliberations should be streamed like CSPAN congressional hearings.

 

[IrishinSyria]

The worst part of all of this is I debased myself cheering for UGA for nothing.

It was very important to me that I was cheering against Bama.

 

[Huntr]

 

[Pete]

I don't disagree. I get why the committee put Bama in: you shouldn't be punished for playing the extra game in your conference CG. I get it. I can agree with it in some ways, but still think the playoffs should just be the 12 best teams. I don't think my guys played like they are yesterday. I'd rather ND have gotten in and Bama just gone to a decent bowl where we have a good chance to finish the season with a win.

I think it’s hilarious how these CCGs have shifted from “13th data point” to, you can’t penalize a team for losing them (well, at least not the SEC game).

 

[pumpdog20]

Agreeing to play BYU would be fucking dumb. BYU would be playing their superbowl and ND would like get beat. And we'd have to listen to how the committee was right.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

The worst part of these weekly rankings from espn is a full month of whining, complaining, and hypotheticals instead of people actually talking about football and matchups happening that every week. It serves the lowest common denominator.

Just win and the committee will do what it does. If your team didn't make it, go win more games next year.

As much as it sucks to see ND get screwed, I still stand by this statement. Don't start 0-2 and this isn't even a conversation today.

Go into Miami with a better game plan offensively.

Don't lose to the Aggies at home on 4th and 11 at the buzzer.

 

[Bishop2b5]

The worst part of all of this is I debased myself cheering for UGA for nothing.

God saw what you did and smote thee for your sin.

 

[RipWheeler]

Ole Piss has no coach stays in, Chokelahoma sucks doesn’t drop, Bama gets jail sexed stays in, the SEC is a joke and can fuck off. Anyone wanting to join that conference of dickheads should reevaluate their fandom of ND.

 

[IrishTusker]

As much as it sucks to see ND get screwed, I still stand by this statement. Don't start 0-2 and this isn't even a conversation today.

Go into Miami with a better game plan offensively.

Don't lose to the Aggies at home on 4th and 11 at the buzzer.

Yeah, I agree. But two 10-2 teams got in. And then a 10-3 team that lost by 21 yesterday.

 

[Dale]

If they have to play a bowl, they should force their way to the Holiday Bowl. Which is on Fox and contains ACC affiliation.

Sun Bowl as second choice.

 

[NDWarrior]

I hope so. I want it to be ugly every damn game next year.

The schedule is ASS next year so shouldn’t be hard to do that!

 

[IRISHDODGER]

I don't disagree. I get why the committee put Bama in: you shouldn't be punished for playing the extra game in your conference CG. I get it. I can agree with it in some ways, but still think the playoffs should just be the 12 best teams. I don't think my guys played like they are yesterday. I'd rather ND have gotten in and Bama just gone to a decent bowl where we have a good chance to finish the season with a win.

I appreciate the sentiment but feel like the obvious point is there shouldn’t be a CCG period. Why should the top two teams in the SEC & B1G have to play an extra game before the CFP? These conferences are approaching 20 teams so there’s not way to truly crown a champion b/c they only play 8-9 conference games so some of these teams don’t play each other for years. For example OSU & Illinois just played each other for the first time in a decade.

And don’t get me started on the ACC. To allow a path for a 5-loss team to play for the championship while their one & only rational choice to make the CFP is on the outside looking in is a joke.

 

[IrishinSyria]

I think it’s hilarious how these CCGs have shifted from “13th data point” to, you can’t penalize a team for losing them (well, at least not the SEC game).

It’s literally extra credit. All upside, no downside.

Oh, and if the conference fucks up and a team of scrubs happens to win that can’t make the playoffs, don’t worry we’ll just go ahead and put the team that should have played in the playoffs instead.