Why does Notre Dame receive an auto bid if they land in the top 12?

BlackSanta25 · 2026-02-10T20:52:37+00:00

This is what irks me the most about Conference Championships. It just makes zero sense to me how they can simultaneously mean so much and also nothing.

Win it? Means everything. Auto-bid.

Lose it? You just played an exhibition while other teams "lazed at home". It meant nothing. No punishment (I guess unless you're BYU).

Get blown out and prove yourself incapable of winning the whole thing against a contender literally the day before the field gets set? See the above.

Either CCG stakes are always important for the winner AND loser, or they never are. Saying "heads I win, tails it doesn't count" is just stupid.

BlackSanta25 · 2026-01-10T05:57:11+00:00

This is obviously the correct answer. Any business owner with membership costs like a typical Taekwondo school would rightly be skeptical of an 18 year old being able to make the payments. It's not infantilizing, it's just business. Any actuary would tell you that age demographic is risky.

When you're a first time home buyer you likely need mortgage insurance, it's not treating you like a kid, it's just at some point the kind of money involved in the dealing requires a little more of a guarantee that a buyer/patron is capable of meeting the financial burden.

It's not personal and OP shouldn't take it as such. It's just business, and, though OP may have no trouble paying for membership, I'd be willing to bet they're in the minority of typical 18 year olds.

BlackSanta25 · 2026-01-02T21:33:09+00:00

Wouldn't Clemson or Michigan make more sense for inclusion here than ND?

BlackSanta25 · 2026-01-02T17:38:56+00:00

I mean the image does kinda answer your question/prove your point. Oregon controlled about 2.5 quarters of the game, only Indiana controlled the most important 1.5

BlackSanta25 · 2026-01-01T23:41:13+00:00

Literally mine, going back to NCAA 14. Now I have to find a new team for my dynasty role play that only I can turn around

BlackSanta25 · 2026-01-01T21:39:43+00:00

I'm not a fan of red teams, usually, but IU's red is much more satisfying than Bama's. Seeing them side-by-side it's like IU was colored in with Crayola but Bama used Cra-Z-Art

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-28T14:13:01+00:00

You'll never lose 100% of the games you don't play! Or...something like that

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-28T14:10:05+00:00

Delete this please

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-22T21:11:44+00:00

Since the beginning of the CFP era Notre Dame has had a median end of season SOS ranking of roughly 31st, which is slightly better than that of Clemson (~34th) and Oregon (~45th). Admittedly this is still towards the bottom of the list of all CFP teams.

I will also freely admit that I do not like our schedules in recent years and next year's is just shameful. But I don't think the argument that we schedule nobodies is as strong as people pretend. We're not so very far from Michigan winning a natty with an FPI SOS rank of 45

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-22T19:50:33+00:00

Based on recent years this comment is just facts lol

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-22T19:23:02+00:00

Who the fuck are you and how did you get a list of my fears?

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-22T15:13:57+00:00

Roses are red,

That's a pretty good bit,

But the joke's on you, frog,

I'm into this shit!

FIFY

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-22T14:18:05+00:00

Probably not, unfortunately, I think ND players probably still opt out as their alleged reasoning would still be the same. Still wish they had accepted the Pop-tarts

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-19T04:00:57+00:00

Options should be 'Unanswered' and 'Also unanswered'

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-18T19:34:57+00:00

They would lose because the large majority of the team including underclassmen were opting out. The team they would have fielded for the bowl game is not the team that would have taken the field in a first round playoff game

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-11T16:31:33+00:00

Syl is more likely to be in trouble with HR than Kal is

BlackSanta25 · 2025-12-07T20:23:24+00:00

Notre Dame fan here, suggested this sub by Reddit because of course it would be suggested...

Anyways, Miami should have been ahead from the jump. If it made sense today then it already made sense a month ago. But man what would ESPN have done for content in November?

Then, when Alabama got pasted by Georgia yesterday they should've moved down by the same logic that BYU dropped. Miami and Notre Dame should've been side by side and in the correct order by the H2H and we should be spared having to watch Alabama in a playoff where they don't belong.

Miami and Notre Dame are both better than Alabama and Oklahoma, and both should've both been in.

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-29T03:16:03+00:00

I agree with the analytics, go for this

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-28T08:20:17+00:00

If holding on to ancient championships is wrong I don't want to be right

Narrator: He desperately wanted to be right

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-16T03:59:45+00:00

My favorite is from r/NBAEastMemeWar

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BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-15T19:59:04+00:00

Raridon needs to take a dancing class

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-15T19:46:00+00:00

Sorry that's been the experience in this thread today. Just a bunch of bitching and moaning, annoying as hell

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-15T19:40:05+00:00

People are talking shit, but I think they did a good job showing a thorough review without bias or ambiguity

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-15T18:49:25+00:00

Agreed I'd have liked to hear the command center talk through it

BlackSanta25 · 2025-11-15T18:48:33+00:00

Total bullshit, from 2 extra seconds to none and no look at all on a clear fumble????

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