2025-2026 College Football Season

[Donoghus]

On a totally different note.

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter
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18m
ESPN Sources: Michigan has fired head coach Sherrone Moore, per me and
@PeteThamel
 and
@DanWetzel
.

EDIT:  Sounds like he pulled an Ime Udoka.

[Ilikesports17]

On a totally different note.

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter
?
18m
ESPN Sources: Michigan has fired head coach Sherrone Moore, per me and
@PeteThamel
 and
@DanWetzel
.

EDIT:  Sounds like he pulled an Ime Udoka.

Perhaps cynical, but part of me thinks that if Michigan was in the CFP this would have been swept under the rug.

[greg683x]

FWIW, SMU lost on the last play of game in the '24 ACC Championship game and was 11-1 heading into the game with its sole loss to a BYU team that finished 11-2 and in the Top 15.. 

Alabama had two losses already and got absolutely smoked by Georgia in the SEC Championship game.

I don't know what the right answer is with ND/Bama but not all CC losses are created the same.

Fair enough.  That being said, it must be nice not to have to worry about playing in one

Why?

And again I have no understanding AT ALL why people want Notre Dame in a conference. Ive yet to hear even an OK explanation for it.

Notre Dame has an agreement that as an unaffiliated team, if they get ranked in the top 12 they are GUARANTEED a CFP spot.  No other affiliated teams have this agreement.  Since they have this guarantee they can?t be the first team out as a bubble team if a G5 team earns a playoff spot or another at large team has a victory over them.

So if Notre Dame is ranked 12, and a G5 team qualifies for the playoff.  The 11th ranked team gets bounced, not Notre Dame, even if the 11th team has a head to head victory against Notre Dame

All this on top of the fact that they can?t be bounced for losing a conference championship game either.  All because they made this agreement as an unaffiliated team.  It essentially gives them a fast pass to the CFP as a bubble team

Oh yeah I thought you were referring to the current setup rather than the one for next year. This is slightly beneficial to ND and Im surprised it was accepted. Although my understanding is it was a concession to pave the way for all P4 champions to be guaranteed a spot (even 7-5 Duke) and a likely expansion to 14 teams.

That said, if you look at who has a more beneficial setup by week 14 CFP ranking:

1-9 no impact as evidenced by Bama staying at 9
10-12 advantage ND
12-25 advantage affiliated teams who can play their way into the playoff while ND cant

From the SECs perspective this is a bad deal as their champion will always be inside the top 10 anyway. The autobid is functionally useless for them. But for the vast majority of college football the benefit of affiliation allowing them to win their way in from a low seed outweights the benefit of having an edge as a bubble team.

I think it makes much more sense if the CFP DOES expand to 14 and if all P4 champions get autobids.

I dont buy this as the argument for ND joining a conference because prior to a few days ago no one even knew about this agreement and I still heard constant noise about people wanting ND to join one.

That?s fair.  I?m sure from the other school?s perspective this is also a money issue as well, though I won?t lose any sleep over it, all these schools have way too much money to begin with

[greg683x]

On a totally different note.

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter
?
18m
ESPN Sources: Michigan has fired head coach Sherrone Moore, per me and
@PeteThamel
 and
@DanWetzel
.

EDIT:  Sounds like he pulled an Ime Udoka.

Perhaps cynical, but part of me thinks that if Michigan was in the CFP this would have been swept under the rug.

Ehh, this is probably the best thing that could have happened for Michigan.  He?s not a good coach, they get to fire him a year early

[Moranis]

On a totally different note.

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter
?
18m
ESPN Sources: Michigan has fired head coach Sherrone Moore, per me and
@PeteThamel
 and
@DanWetzel
.

EDIT:  Sounds like he pulled an Ime Udoka.

it is allegedly much worse (none of what I'm going to say is confirmed all rumored). The staffer was his actual executive assistant and is now pregnant with his kid. Once UM started looking into it they found all sorts of texts in which Moore was using recruiting trips to go dates with many different women.  He just couldn't keep it nine his pants at all.

[Moranis]

FWIW, SMU lost on the last play of game in the '24 ACC Championship game and was 11-1 heading into the game with its sole loss to a BYU team that finished 11-2 and in the Top 15.. 

Alabama had two losses already and got absolutely smoked by Georgia in the SEC Championship game.

I don't know what the right answer is with ND/Bama but not all CC losses are created the same.

Fair enough.  That being said, it must be nice not to have to worry about playing in one

SMU fell 2 spots in the rankings from 8th to 10th. They were 11 -2. The only other 2 loss power 4 teams were Miami and BYU.  BYU actually beat SMU last year but they were so far behind it apparently didn't matter (look at that more inconsistencies). SMU and Miami did not play, however Miami finished 3rd in the ACC regular season so it made sense for SMU to stay ahead of them.  All of the other teams in consideration were 3 loss SEC teams. Bama was the highest ranked, but just the 1 ranked win ( a great kne in GA) and had 2 unranked losses, one of them by 3 TD. 

So SMU dropped 2 spots, but stayed in because of where they were ranked and who was behind them.  Easily could have fallen out though.