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CFP Bracket 2026 (x.com)
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[–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

It's the quality of wins and schedule. ND played mostly cupcakes and won against vastly inferior opponents. OU has 6 wins against ranked opponents. Many higher than the best quality win of ND which is #22 USC. And again, ND doesn't have to contend with a conference championship. IMO conference championship losers shouldn't be penalized. BYU didn't qualify not because they got blown out but because their wins are against crap opponents. cupcakes. Play a weak schedule pay the price. ND isn't deserving this year. If ND can fix their schedule next year it would be good. They have a good freshman QB who will grow in the next 2 years before he jumps to NFL. Get things right in that time.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Can only play who is in front of you and the schedules are set years in advance. That and there is clear and obvious SEC bias in the rankings which distorts everything anyway.

    Alabama had what, Mizzou? How is that better than Navy who finished 9-2 and ahead in the rankings. LSU wasn't ranked at all. TN not ranked at all and somehow were ranked still near the end even with a terrible schedule. Nearly lost to many of those too- Auburn, LSU, South Carolina...

    ND- stronger strength of record- https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi

    I give them Vandy and GA of course.

    But in any case the point remains- what did they do in the final weeks to justify jumping ahead of ND? ND was ranked higher and demolished Stanford so much that they had starters resting in the 2nd half (like most of their last games) and Alabama needed every bit of luck to squeak by Auburn with an interim head coach but...that was a "great win" that "totally justified jumping the Irish"?

    That's baloney, pure and simple.

    I guess I just disagree wholeheartedly. We did ourselves no favors so I'd be fine with a more deserving team but Alabama is simply not that and is coasting on name alone.

    At this point let computers do the playoffs because the "eye test" clearly favored the Irish going into the final rankings if they had at all watched Alabama play.

    Edit- a snippet from reddit from someone with a GA flair. I think it says it well though the "infantile" is not what I see- FSU should've opted out a few years ago as well from a clear BS process.

    If I had the final say in it all, I’d leave the playoff exactly the way it is, except swap Alabama for ND

    The end and long of it is Bama lost 3 games and ND lost 2. Notre Dame’s 2 losses came by a combined 4 points, and both to teams who made the playoffs. 2 of Alabama’s 3 losses were to a 5-7 team, and a blowout to close out the year. Alabama also struggled and had to find ways to beat Mizzou, South Carolina, and Auburn, 2 of which aren’t going bowling either. You can make fun of ND’s schedule all you want, but they absolutely took care of business against inferior competition.

    Do I feel a little sorry for ND for getting hosed by the playoff committee, when they clearly deserved the spot over Alabama? A little. What we’re all making fun of them for is their near infantile reaction to it all.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The schedules are set only a few years in advance, and ND could very well have scheduled tougher opponents but chose not to. You are excusing them for having no say in their schedule when they do. They still held their own destiny in their hands - by beating all the cupcakes. It's really simple. You're scrutinizing the quality of ND's losses. The rest of the world scrutinizes the quality of wins. It's the wins that matter, not the losses. I'm a neutral and I watch college ball across all conferences. SEC has better teams across the board than any conference including B1G. ND played against cupcake ACC and should've beaten them all if they were so deserving. They didn't and they can sulk all they want. Beating cupcakes deserve no respect. And rightfully so.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    I mean, they are beholden to the ACC schedule given aligning during covid. No one would've known that most of those teams are quite poor nowadays.

    And it is what it is. We'll agree to disagree. I think Alabama is not at all a playoff team and ND is but it's water under the bridge now. The snub was just the cherry on top and Alabama did NOTHING to jump ND as their wins were all factored in and they were behind the Irish up til Auburn.

    And also big disagree on the SEC being top and bottom above the rest. They get a lot of favoritism in their rankings and it shows. Teams that are ranked high in the SEC had trouble with Arkansas and such who the Irish utterly dismantled for example. And if we talk cupcakes, ND is one of the few programs that doesn't schedule FCS. Talk about cupcakes. But I guess we can't all play "the mighty Citadel" or powerhouse Mercer.

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