In the last three years...
There's been 16 conference championship game losers that were ranked in the CFP Top 25 entering the game.
15 of the 16 losers dropped in the next poll.
The lone exception...the 2025 Alabama Crimson Tide.
Notre Dame just got punished for a three-point road loss to No. 10 Miami on August 31, while Alabama lost by 14 to a 5–7 Florida State team at the same time.
SEC/Bama bias in a nutshell.
The College Football Playoff selection committee really screwed up this time.
The process has to work for the CFP to earn and keep our trust. This one didn’t. This one made a mockery of the whole sport.
COLUMN: https://t.co/bDIV1rB4bF
Absolutely a JOKE that @NDFootball is not part of the college football playoff/ the Irish have dominated 10 in a row after a heartbreaking 1 point loss to @AggieFootball What football is the committee watching, somebody tell me please.
So folks at @espn are upset ND isn’t playing in a bowl game after weeks of folks politicking against the lack of conference affiliation, using them as a pawn for their CFB playoff selection show, having the ACC network play the UM/ND game on repeat for 48 hours during Conf Champ week BUT now it’s a bad look they don’t want to serve ESPN’s best interest by playing in an exhibition bowl game? Got it.
Legitimately thought Notre Dame was going to win the national title.
Especially after seeing IU/OSU last night.
Arguably the best team in the country just got left out of the playoff.
Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua says since losing to Miami, the Irish have separated themselves as the better team.
“Nobody wins the race at the starting line. And I really think right now there’s not a team in the country playing better football than the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.”
“I don’t know if he’s going to be one, two or three, but he’s definitely top three.” — @KirkHerbstreit on Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love’s Heisman Trophy chances