Michael Bryan
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writing about ND football since '08 / advanced stats guy / college football road-tripper / Atlanta native / Kamado Joe operator
Indianapolis, IN
Joined June 2011
Without going deep into bad faith arguments (we wish the ACC didn’t suck too!) - if ND was trying to rig a CFP schedule they’d be ditching more P4 programs and instead schedule more Boise / UNLV / Toledo / James Madison’s of the world that the committee SOS formula rewards
We will see you the second week of December
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Using “late in the season” in your defense after Notre Dame was left out despite reeling off 10 straight is a lazy smokescreen. Same with “what about Week 0”. Looking at who each program schedules to replace the other will make it really transparent
USC source disputes this. USC cites new information about the MOU (in past few weeks) & CFP selection process overall as key reasons it didn’t want to play Notre Dame late in the season.
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Everything you need to know about the state of rivalry said here - SC can’t imagine a late season win that could jump them into the CFP, only a loss that would keep them out (they are going 8-4 next year even without ND on the schedule)
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It should be a rule that reporting on transfer portal entires should only include 2025 stats, NOT career stats
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Players are starting to declare their transfer plans in preparation for the portal opening in early January - what's on Notre Dame's Christmas list this year to fill out the 2026 roster? https://t.co/EOKxx6v4gx
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Closing the book on Notre Dame's wild week, from processing the CFB snub, bowl game opt-out reactions, and what the Irish should do about it https://t.co/NgwqEkKVdm
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“Finish out the season”? the CFP determined they’d finished the season. The same clowns bemoaning that bowl games are a charade now are acting like this game was going to change anything about Notre Dames 2025 or 2026
The point of playing football is to play football. So Notre Dame's decision to opt out of playing a bowl game isn't just disappointing, but bad for the sports, @chrisvannini writes.
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Seeing a lot of this lazy idea which sounds good in theory except 1) if you bother to look, clearly not how ND is approaching future schedules, and 2) yesterday shows the committee won’t hesitate to slide 10-2 Irish out for any number of reasons
Right So the Irish can totally game the system now. Schedule a bunch of teams who play under the cap and hell, hard to see them not be top-12 finish even with an empty 10-2
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you know this is really bad because I can’t even get excited for the Pop Tarts Bowl
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An absurd argument when Tulane beat the ACC champ. You can blame bloat but the ACC’s inability to have decent teams that could keep a 56th ranked team in F+ from going 6-2 in league play is just as much to blame. Sit in the bed you made.
We’re all arguing about Miami, Alabama, Notre Dame and overlooking that TWO groups of 5 schools are occupying spots when they have zero business playing in it this year. Tulane lost 45-10 to Ole Miss. JMU only played ONE P4 school and lost by 14. What a mess
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🏈 Thoughts: A lot of college sports leaders are up in their feelings this morning. None of this is “bad” or broken. The committee's job was always to sort out the final spot or two in a sport where that is impossible due to disparate schedules. They’ll take two from ND,
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“In the field” doesn’t really exist when the committee says they re evaluate every week and teams idle can move. If Bama could jump teams to hosting (or more) with a win, why can’t they fall with a gross loss? Every data point matters
Take: I don’t think a team already in the field should be knocked out of the field for losing a conference championship game against a team it already beat on the road, in favor of teams that didn’t play.
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oh man he’s saying mean things about the playoff committee after the show meant to create attention and debate about the committee rankings, how will it survive
Bruce Feldman is mad as hell with the College Football Playoff and not going to take this anymore https://t.co/qesvP0NWuQ
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☘️ new pod ☘️ If you have questions about the playoff, how the process works and where Notre Dame stands after last night, @michaelbryanMB and I did our best to answer them in a tidy 30 minutes. Choose your own adventure. https://t.co/R7jCrld8V2
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Rakes Report: A Notre Dame Podcast · Episode
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the graphs and a discussion on if the results of Notre Dame’s other 11 games are better enough than Miami’s to outweigh the H2H loss on the road is way more interesting to lots of people than whatever this "spirit of the sport and country" grandstanding was. good luck tonight!
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the ACC / Miami spin zone hard at work to tell you last weekend proved something about Miami > ND
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the Duke vs. James Madison version of this is going to be so sick
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when you’re so lost in the sauce you think you’ve cracked the code and it spits out a list of best teams that doesn’t include Ohio State, Indiana, Texas Tech or Georgia
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The biggest argument is none of these. It’s the results of Notre Dame’s other 11 games and believing they are better enough than Miami’s to outweigh the H2H loss on the road. Computers + voters agree ND has been better. CFP has to judge how much better before H2H takes over.
Notre Dame's biggest arguments for the CFP are 1) We've improved since week one 2) we lost close games to good teams. As it relates to Miami 1) Miami improved too. Freshman Malachi Toney is now one of the - if not the most - dangerous all-purpose players in the country...
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