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[Tyler Schoettle @Sweet_T_is_here]

The only game it would have been acceptable @PFTCommenter (first attempt at editing a video, relax)

[Tyler Schoettle @Sweet_T_is_here]

@PardonMyTake Pizza and breadsticks big miss

[John Massingale @JohnMassingale4]

Top 50 SP+ opponents

2025 Alabama gauntlet: 5

2026 Notre Dame cake walk: 5

Top 25 SP+ opponents

2025 Alabama Gauntlet: 5

2025 Notre Dame cakewalk: 4

[Cons @CaptainCons]

I never understood schedule slander in cfb when the bulk of it is planned years ahead of time with only a few spots, if any, filled in the year before or same year

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Do we still have time to put Notre Dame in the Playoff over Alabama?

[Brandon Walker @BFW]

Now we have the Ohio State conversation. They started the season scoring 14 vs Texas, ended with 10 vs Indiana, 14 vs Miami. In between they beat 10 nobodies.

These huge conferences are allowing teams to fraud their way through a season and they looked pretty damn fake tonight.

[Marcus Freeman @Marcus_Freeman1]

2026…run it back

Go Irish ☘️

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

The nation’s best offensive line unit 🏆

@JoeMooreAward x #Hawkeyes

[WBR @W_B_Rick]

(Notre Dame fans may have had a point if we’re being honest)

[Biased Notre Dame Fan @CFBGuy999]

Notre Dame 2026 Top 10 Recruits:

Rodney Dunham - Edge 5⭐️
Ian Premer - TE 5⭐️
Joey O’Brien - S 5⭐️
Khary Adams - CB 4⭐️
Ayden Pouncy - S 4⭐️
Ben Nichols - OT 4⭐️
Grayson McKeough OT 4⭐️
Ebenezer Ewetade - Edge 4⭐️
Jonaz Walton - RB 4⭐️
Javion Osborne - RB 4⭐️

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[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Alabama has looked like trash for the past three weeks. Notre Dame is more qualified to make the CFP. Instead, ESPN has rigged a conversation that forces everybody to focus on Notre Dame’s loss to Miami, and Alabama gets in without any questioning. The SEC holds all the power.

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

I understand ND lost its two biggest games and that's why it's out, I'm not arguing against it. I don't care. But for all the BS SOS talking points.

SOS RANKINGS VIA SAGARIN

Notre Dame - 32nd
Miami - 30th
Ole Miss - 39th
Indiana - 43rd
BYU - 34th

In other words, Notre Dame played the same schedule that other playoff contenders from the conferences everybody says it has to join played.

[David G 🇨🇴🇦🇷🇧🇷🇪🇸 @DavidGabrielDJ]

Yall just exaggerating and making stuff up.

We thought we’d be included because for every poll for the last few months we’ve been in the top ten. And out of nowhere we are dropped two spots for no reason.

If we had been 12-14 the entire time, none of this happens.

[Dan @dannah__montana]

What’s crazy about the ND scheduling talk is that they only had control over 7 of their 12 games and this is how they scheduled them:

#10 Miami
#7 Texas A&M
#16 USC
Boise State (won their conference)
Navy (went 9-2, play every year)
Arkansas
Purdue

No FCS teams
Only one cupcake

[Jeff Sunday @TheDegenWeekly]

People love to shit on Notre Dame for their "cupcake" schedule. Is it really all that cupcake? Let's discuss:

*Keep in mind, these games are scheduled years in advance*

WK 1 @ Miami
WK 2 vs Texas A&M
WK 3 vs Purdue

- Let's stop there. ND opens the year on the road against a big boy program. I salute any team who starts their season with a road game. Ohio State didn't have a road game till week 5. Missouri didn't have a road game till week 7 (!) Even Bama gets credit in my book for going to Tallahassee. Then ND turns right around with an SEC opponent. Objectively the hardest first two weeks in CFB. Then they get their cupcake. It's too bad Purdue fell off a cliff after Brohm left. This is an ND rival and will usually be on their schedule.

WK 4 @ Arkansas

- Stop! Okay, so another road game AND another SEC team. In the previous 4 years Arkansas' record is 27-24. They are an above average team. This is not "easy" on the surface when ND scheduled this game. Too bad they ended up being a disaster.

WK 5 vs Boise State

- Stop again!!! Okay, is Boise State not a respectable non-P4 team? I'd argue they are one of the best you can play against. A 9 win team that won their conference this year and went to playoff last year. Cupcake? Pfff.

WK 6 vs NC State

- STOP!!! So, this is one of the five ACC teams ND rotates between ever year, and it's a bummer that the Wolfpack had a down year. NC State wen't 8-4 and 9-3 between 2022-23. Again, when the team is scheduled, you think you're getting legit opponent. Don't forget that they did beat Georgia Tech!

WK 7 vs USC

- Another big boy program and rival of ND that will always be on their schedule.

Through 7 weeks, when you consider ND made this schedule a few years ago, you're telling me this is "cupcake"...? Come on man. ND wasn't trying to take the easy road here. And you're full of shit for pushing that narrative.

WK 8 @ BC
WK 9 Navy
WK 10 @ Pitt

- The second cupcake opponent with BC. Similar to Purdue, old rival of ND will usually be on their schedule. Sucks that their program has become an embarrassment. Navy isn't fun to play ever, and Pitt had a good year.

WK 11 vs Syracuse
WK vs Stanford

- Totally sucks that Steve Angeli got hurt. This would have been a fun revenge game, and Cuse would not have been a joke of a team. They beat Clemson on the road, don't forget! And then Stanford man...fucking Stanford. They are killing ND's SOS more than anyone. Used to be a solid 8-9 win team. Long gone are the days of Andrew Luck and CMC. I think ND should move on from this rivalry.

For an independent team, I think ND did a fine job trying to make their schedule competitive. You don't see a Grambling, Bethune Cookman, or Sam Houston St. Haters will always hate.

[Mason @MasonPlummer_]

The average college football fan has ZERO idea how scheduling works

[CFBTalkDaily @CFBTalkDaily]

The SEC deal with ESPN is a direct threat to the integrity of our sport

[TJ Pittinger @TJ_Pittinger]

If Alabama loses in Norman will they be penalized or will the committee move them onto the quarterfinal?

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

I went to USC. I can’t stand Notre Dame. And there is zero justification, absolutely zero, for Alabama being in the playoff over Notre Dame. This system is a joke and needs a complete overhaul.

[Brady Quinn @Brady_Quinn]

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.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

I don’t blame Notre Dame one bit for deciding not to play in a Bowl Game when they should have been playing for a chance to win the National Championship in the College Football Playoff.