2025 College Football Playoffs

[tirishman505]

This feels manufactured. You can tell we’re in the offseason.

 

[SDIrishFan]

I’m not sure I understand the outrage or “special treatment” narrative. Most all teams, if they’re in the top 12, are in. No different for ND.

 

[stlnd01]

This feels manufactured. You can tell we’re in the offseason.

Yep.

1: It's just something to talk about - as if the ongoing portal shenanigans wasn't enough, but that's all a little too complicated for the TV yell-fests.

2: To the point it is intentional by those who actually know better, it's to seed the ground for another mid fifth-place SEC or B1G team to get in over us again next year. ("Join a conference and compete like everyone else." As if our schedule this year wasn't just as tough as half the teams that made the CFP). To that, our best response is to simply leave no doubt on the field. Pummel everyone.

 

[Blazers46]

Imagine being upset a top 12 team make a 12 team playoff…

 

[tirishman505]

Imagine being upset a top 12 team make a 12 team playoff…

this. take a sports fan that knows nothing of college football and the question would be "Why does a top 12 team need a guarantee in a 12 team playoff?"

 

[Dale]

People are also incorrectly saying we would have gotten in over Miami. If we’re applying all new rule changes, ACC tiebreakers change. Miami likely into the ACC Championship, the MOU no longer matters.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Not sure where to put this, but some interesting developments How the CFP will be different in 2026: Changes for Notre Dame, auto-bids and money distribution

There also will no longer be performance bonuses for advancing in the field for most teams. Miami earned around $20 million for its run this season. Next year, it will be a flat number. The team at the bottom of the SEC or Big Ten standings will earn more than the top teams from other conferences that make the field. That financial layout was one point of Florida State’s lawsuit against the ACC.

Notre Dame will receive more than $12 million annually, with a $6 million boost for making the field, putting its payout near the Big Ten/SEC levels in those years it earns an invite.

 

[Huntr]

Boy, the little bitches on r/cfb are gonna be all in their feelings about that one.

 

[NDPhilly]

I don’t really see how this is a good deal for us if even if we make it we make less than a shitty B10 team - makes it seem like a school like Northwestern would make $21M regardless if they get in or not, while we’re capped at $18M

 

[zelezo vlk]

I don’t really see how this is a good deal for us if even if we make it we make less than a shitty B10 team - makes it seem like a school like Northwestern would make $21M regardless if they get in or not, while we’re capped at $18M

The Big Ten and SEC had a ton of leverage in that round of negotiations

 

[burmafrd1944]

The money is there; we have more than we need. That is all that matters'
chasing every last dollar leads to bad decisions

 

[jerseyborn1971]

Sharing the money amongst every team in the conference is the Elite Package for Everyone Gets a Trophy.

 

[NDWarrior]

The hate is really being broughten against ND and it's special CFP "advantage."

Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame Under Fire As Ex-Alabama Stars Blast Alleged ‘Laughingstock’ Advantage

 

[HouseofPain]

The hate is really being broughten against ND and it's special CFP "advantage."

Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame Under Fire As Ex-Alabama Stars Blast Alleged ‘Laughingstock’ Advantage

You cant really expect a lot from Bama players. They have been fed the Kool Aid for years that if you arent SEC, you play a watered down schedule even though year in, year out Bama plays its share of weak ducks.

 

[ThePiombino]

The hate is really being broughten against ND and it's special CFP "advantage."

Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame Under Fire As Ex-Alabama Stars Blast Alleged ‘Laughingstock’ Advantage

Ironic, considering the mental gymnastics the SEC/ESPN/CFPC did to get Bama in this season...

 

[Ndaccountant]

The way the column reads makes n it seem as if the provision was a byproduct of 2025. It was not, it was agreed upon before the season began.

 

[Dale]

The article and both comments sounds like it was written by a Twitter replies section

 

[NDPhilly]

Based on the adjusted playoff payouts, we are basically paying for that exception since we are making less than SEC / B10 teams even when we make it.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

The hate is really being broughten against ND and it's special CFP "advantage."

Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame Under Fire As Ex-Alabama Stars Blast Alleged ‘Laughingstock’ Advantage

I’d argue getting into the playoffs after being boat raced on 3 separate occasions, just because some guy coached your program 2 years ago is a special advantage


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[NDWarrior]

The way the column reads makes n it seem as if the provision was a byproduct of 2025. It was not, it was agreed upon before the season began.

I noticed that

 

[MPClinton22]

Do they think ND unilaterally made that change? We held the rest of CFB at gunpoint and insisted upon it? These mouth breathers need to rake their own leaders over the coals for agreeing to it if it’s such an awful change. Do they think ND would NOT agree to a provision that protects us? Good lord people are so dumb

 

[DCDomer]

The hate is really being broughten against ND and it's special CFP "advantage."

Marcus Freeman’s Notre Dame Under Fire As Ex-Alabama Stars Blast Alleged ‘Laughingstock’ Advantage

"Advantages" were fine when their entire team that didn't have a pot to piss in growing up were rolling up to August camp with chromed out Escalades in '09 (edit - it was 2010 )

I remember watching this video when it came out like

 

[jerseyborn1971]

Bama is done. They don't have the money to compete. They have been hanging around the fringes because they still had some decent players. They'll win 8 games next year.

 

[burmafrd1944]

Bama is done. They don't have the money to compete. They have been hanging around the fringes because they still had some decent players. They'll win 8 games next year.

stuns me that they apparently don't have the money
Where are all those Alumni that have been bragging about Bama for the last quarter century?

 

[NorthDakota]

Bama is done. They don't have the money to compete. They have been hanging around the fringes because they still had some decent players. They'll win 8 games next year.

It all goes on cycles. They just finished a very long cycle and their method of competing that way isn't going to work anymore unless some serious rule changes are made.

I don't know what kind of NIL budget they got (or really what anyone has), but I don't think they the ability to scorched earth like some schools right now but they aren't going to be the new Nebraska or something.

 

[NDhoosier]

ACC tiebreakers change. Miami likely into the ACC Championship

Did this officially change for the next season?

 

[tirishman505]

As far as I know they just announced they will be changing them. I don't believe they've released the new rules yet. It's the ACC, so the new could be just as a big of shitshow as the old.