2025-2026 College Football Season

[greg683x]

Also, just to be clear, bc I think I?ve gotten myself in the weeds a little bit.  I have no problem with Notre Dame being in the CFP this year.  This debate started with the suggestion of throwing Alabama out, bc they lost the title game, and keeping Notre Dame in, which I think is a joke.

The screw up in my opinion is letting both Tulane and James Madison in.  That is a huge steaming pile.  JMU should have been dropped out and Notre Dame could have been kept in and I think most people would have understood

[Moranis]

ND played Miami, A&M, and USC this year.  Plus the 3rd best team is the 4th/5th best conference (Navy) and perennial conference winner Boise St. in addition to 5 other ACC teams and another SEC and Big Ten team.  That is a better schedule than A&M and Ole Miss.  Frankly it is comparable to Oregon and Ohio State's schedules as well (prior to OSU playing IU).  They don't have a terrible loss like Bama or Texas.  If ND had played someone like Missouri instead of A&M and won that game, they would have been in (same argument i made re. Texas and the OSU game).  The committee is incentizing teams to not play games like that. That is bad for the sport.

Except A&M and Ole Miss have a win against quality opponents this year.  Notre Dame does not.  They need to have a signature win, who was it?  Pitt?  No one?s ever going to care about teams like Boise and Navy.

I agree with you about the problem with incentivizing weak schedules but this isn?t the argument to plant that flag on.  Texas tough schedule should have allowed them some grace with an extra loss AS LONG AS they had good wins to back it up and they certainly did


Notre Dame does not have an elite win on their schedule.  You need to beat at least one of those teams

USC is ranked 16th.  Not really all that much different than Notre Dame or Oklahoma in the scheme of things.

[Moranis]

Also, just to be clear, bc I think I?ve gotten myself in the weeds a little bit.  I have no problem with Notre Dame being in the CFP this year.  This debate started with the suggestion of throwing Alabama out, bc they lost the title game, and keeping Notre Dame in, which I think is a joke.

The screw up in my opinion is letting both Tulane and James Madison in.  That is a huge steaming pile.  JMU should have been dropped out and Notre Dame could have been kept in and I think most people would have understood

After Bama lost to Oklahoma, Bama fell behind Notre Dame in the rankings and was behind them in week 13 and week 14. Then, despite Notre Dame destroying Stanford while Alabama was barely getting by an awful Auburn team, their ranking flipped in week 15.  How could barely beating Auburn while ND is destroying Stanford cause those teams to switch spots in the rankings?  It is dumb.  Notre Dame should have always been ahead of Alabama and Miami should have always been ahead of them both. 

This was simply the committee doing all kinds of inconsistent and stupid things to make sure Alabama made it in.  It is a travesty.  Alabama lost by 14 points to a 5-7 Florida State team.  They got destroyed by 21 points in their last game.  They have no business being in the playoff as the first 3 loss (non-CC) team to ever make it in.