Dec 08, 2025
3 min read
Blasphemy's name is regrettable, but playing football means playing football.
Notre Dame took the ball and went home, and everyone is bad for it.
Although neither played last weekend, the 10-2 Fighting Irish announced Sunday they would not accept a bowl bid, hours after becoming the first team to be eliminated from the College Football Playoff field and replaced by Miami.It's understandable that they're angry — I ranked Miami and Notre Dame, for what that's worth — but ending the season because you've been humiliated is short-sighted and embarrassing, and it's drained sympathy from fans.Against the Irish, who failed to make the playoffs.
It's a simple dash like never before, as long as the body does its job.No, I don't think I'm respecting the 45-year policy of the Cup, which lasted until 1969.
"We appreciate all the support from our families and fans and hope to bring South Cape a 12th national title in 2126," an unnamed team statement said.
It's hard to see him giving up in the weeks leading up to 2026, especially with so many bright youngsters helping the team.It's all spring camp fertilizer, and the Irish give it away.They include C.j.Carswrets Studthirk frrethmandmandman fr.j.No. 4 No. 4 No. 4 No. 4 in Carr.Some of these early enrollees would love to see the benefits of potty training, right?
No.
I guess the reality of the modern bowl system.I understand why the NFL carries players from the stomach.Especially the first straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight straight
We've also seen rosters decimate after coaching changes in the transfer portal era, such as LSU playing with just 45 scholarship players in the 2021 Texas Bowl.That's not good.Some places literally can not put a team for this game.
But Notre Dame is not.This is not a team that makes a coaching change like Kansas State and Iowa State.This is not a team with a miserable slump that needs to end - Notre Dame has won 10 straight games.This is not a team that lacks players because of the transfer portal, which only opened in January.Either way, dozens of other teams play in bowl games.A number will be able to submit a list.This is only a group that did not receive the required post position.
Are these the days of underdog teams motivated to win their bowl games?The comparison to Florida State in 2023 is clearly what someone wants to do here.That Seminoles team, which was seized by the committee despite a season of 13-0, fulfilled what was basically a JV team against No.6 Georgia and was beaten 63-3.
But something goes further.
In 2022, when Alabama was the No. 1 team, the Crimson Tide and its biggest stars, including Bryce Young, played in the Sugar Bowl and beat Kansas State.Last year, Alabama's No. 1 team saw most of its best players, including Jalen Milroe, suit up and play at Michigan.
Reports say Notre Dame would play BYU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.That's BYU, the team whose case was waived by the committee two years in a row.What did BYU do after last year's CFP shutout?The Cougars destroyed Colorado in the Alamo Bowl and people thought the Cougars were wrong.(Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter were paid to play in that game, by the way).
Like Lane KIFFIN leaving the National Tournament of Champions Counch Ole Gorgo LSU during the season, what the Dame of Fame is doing here is another line that has been crossed in the modern era.
The purpose of playing football is to play football.Business decisions and economics are part of it, but the business (and scope) of sports has led many of us to believe that the only thing that matters is the championship in the end.College football hasn't been like this in 100 years.They were changing jobs.However, there was still a feature that the teams were not taken into account in terms of professional sports play-offs.
Indiana played Ohio State in the big title game, which was never about a playoff look.But the players lined up and played because that's football and you get a few chances to do that.
You saw the emotion when Indiana won its first Big Ten title in 58 years, beating Ohio State for the first time in 37 years, and you remembered what it was all about.You've seen Texas Tech fans, who already have a CFP berth locked up, cry over winning their first true conference championship in 49 years.year.The playoffs don't have to be everything.
Here is a significant portfolio, what are the things called to take a college status.I hate it, and I had to do it.Remember that in the past.a sports at its best and also to celebrate it.
That's why it's so sad for the Irish not to miss a shoe game.Nor Dame is seen as an example of what college football is like.And if so now, it doesn't look good.
