Notre Lame too good for a bowl

[dtgreg]

Let's hope their absence will make my heart grow fonder. I doubt it but I'm happy to try!

 

[bamaclimber]

Just looked at the bowl lineup. It's terrible. First it was players opting out of games, now it's schools opting out. The playoffs absolutely killed the bowl games. Zero interest in watching a single one outside of the playoffs.

 

[rolltide7854]

I was just about to post this. There are no ramifications for ND since they’re not in a conference. They have to get ready for Lacrosse season after all (fwiw I have no idea when lacrosse season begins).

It begins in late January or early February, so the football team has graciously allowed the lacrosse team to use the practice field to get ready for the season.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997791655995601233

 

[crimsonaudio]

Just looked at the bowl lineup. It's terrible. First it was players opting out of games, now it's schools opting out. The playoffs absolutely killed the bowl games. Zero interest in watching a single one outside of the playoffs.

If only someone could have seen this coming when people were clamoring for playoffs…

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Brett's on a roll:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997804720929608059

 

[Krymsonman]

I was just about to post this. There are no ramifications for ND since they’re not in a conference. They have to get ready for Lacrosse season after all (fwiw I have no idea when lacrosse season begins).

And just think. One of their lacrosse players - former BAMA QB Ty Buchner - fumbled a late game XP snap against A&M that allowed A&M to come back and score a TD, and kick the XP for the win. Maybe if they win that game they wouldn't be whining now.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997821514968924654

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I hate ND and am ecstatic that they’re out, but it makes no sense that the committee had ND ahead of Miami all this time and then, with no new data points directly involving those two teams, decided to give the spot to Miami.

I assume it’s because they would otherwise have had no ACC representation but that makes no sense either.

There are so many inherent discrepancies and logical faults with this process that it’s basically a game of Whack-A-Mole.

They do stuff like this every year:

2014 - TCU was #3, blew out Iowa State the last day by 52 points, and suddenly dropped below Baylor.
Stated reason: well, Baylor beat TCU head-to-head. YES - as had been true since the first polls when they WERE NOT ahead of TCU.

2015 - Oklahoma is #3 and......drops to #4 in the last poll, changing their matchup from us to Clemson. Sparty, ranked #5, moves to three.

2017 - "spots 4 through 8 are paper thin." Games are played. Same people after the games: "oh, it was never really very close."

2019 - two-loss Oregon beats Utah, 37-15, for the Pac-12 title and pole vaults from 13 to 6. In the process, they leap over #11 Auburn, who beat Oregon, 27-21, in the opener and whose 3 losses were to #1, #5 and #9 while Oregon's second loss was to 8-5 Arizona St. The week before - despite the 3-2 loss deficit for Auburn - the Tigers had been ranked to spots ahead of Oregon because of head-to-head. They also leap Alabama, whose two losses were to #1 LSU and #12 Auburn. Apparently, the head-to-head suddenly didn't matter because "they beat Utah and won their conference and had fewer losses," but it's seems arbitrary to give Oregon a pass on head-to-head for a six-point loss but not Alabama for a three-point loss.

2022 - TCU loses the conference title to Kansas State while ranked #3. They don't drop at all, using the logic of "we're not going to punish them for losing a rematch." Didn't even drop them one spot, which would have been justifiable.

2023 - Alabama pole vaults from #8 to #3 thanks to ending Georgia's 29-game unbeaten streak and leaving Florida State to cry about the injustice. Asked to comment, the committee says it's because the Seminoles would be playing without their QB. This excuse is fine, I guess, except Jordan Travis went out for good in the North Alabama game and the Noles dropped one spot and then regained it over the next two weeks. You'd think if this was an acceptable excuse, they'd have been dropped earlier.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997821514968924654

Hey, let’s put together a Tidefans team and all show up. It will be fun!

 

[RTR2u]

Haha I just saw a graphic from the movie "Rudy" where the team comes in one by one to put their jersey on the coach's desk in retaliation.

ND has experience at this.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Hey, let’s put together a Tidefans team and all show up. It will be fun!

I have no intentions of chasing Georgia Southern around the football field. My facing the Triple Option days ended in 1985 when I graduated from HS.

 

[JayBama_in_PCOLA]

This makes me very happy I’m a Crimson Tide fan.

 

[64 Grad]

This is selfish. The biggest criticism of Notre Dame during the poll era is they would not go to a bowl game to lay it on the line with other regions. They did go to one Rose Bowl early. Same with the Big 10 only went to the Rose Bowl and would not even let a team repeat. They only decided to go when they could make money. They are definitely arrogant and self centered. Think about the trouble the teams and fans went through playing in bowl games when they had to ride the train and no big pay off.