It feels like at this point Notre Dame should’ve (very publicly) counter-offered. Take the early September matchup for ‘26-‘27 but force an additional home and home for ‘28-‘29 where both the ND and USC home games are played Thanksgiving week.

In comes Sankey fighting to protect G5 auto big into playoff so an SEC team can at least win something in the postseason.

When you play a non-conference schedule comprised of tech schools and in the SEC and not a good conference like the B1G, this will happen

We’re quickly approaching the point where Greg Sankey should probably be charged with something. What he and his ilk have done to College Football is unforgivable.

This would be an ok argument if they didn’t get throttled. How many other teams can you point to that are the “better” team and managed to get shutout in a 3-score loss?

Poetry

This is a wild take because the haters have been on your ass for weeks Josh. You’ve been getting killed on here - just like your SEC boys

Yeah still having conferences with no geographic significance and 26 teams at this point is pretty fucking stupid huh?

Perfect proof of why there may be a bit more nuance to this than blindly using SOS metrics that are already heavily biased towards SEC teams purely for the benefit of ESPN.

CFP Postseason: (so far) Winners: G5 ACC Notre Dame Non-ESPN sports media The BCS computer (come back pls) Losers: Every committee member Greg Sankey SEC ESPN Kirk Herbstreit Conferences in general Bye weeks (still) Bowl game commissioners Fans who don’t want to see blowouts

Fan of an SEC school espouses the benefits of conference affiliation in the wake of their best teams all getting absolutely killed when they are finally forced to play actual football teams outside of the cupcakes in the SEC. Bum take

Interesting to hear analysis of “feminized men” from the person seemingly advocating for the rights of armed federal agents to materially damage your vehicle on an illegal traffic stop

250 years of missing tea taxes… good luck footing that bill Piers Morgan

Good on Freeman for saying this. The hard part is he’s absolutely right and ND did leave doubt. The harder part is that we were apparently the only team that standard applied to…

There's an easy solution to this problem ... leave and form a conference of all west coast teams ... call it the Pac 10.

If a 13th ranked top-5 conf champ gets in and you don’t think that’s a problem but ND getting in at 12 is a problem you are at best inconsistent and at worst just pretty dumb

Not a fan of the carve out but does it seem odd to anyone that in a playoff supposedly featuring the *12 best teams* that this would ever be seen as “necessary” by ND? That they would need a provision to be included in the 12-team playoff as one of the top 12 teams?

Excellent illustration that the problem really is not ND’s clause but rather the autobids for undeserving conference champions.

But who will think of the NCAA?!?!

This tweet is a great reminder that people will publicly say the dumbest stuff imaginable as long as it attacks people they don’t like.