Note Dame

That's what I'm getting at. They had to in basketball, and they should have to in football. They don't want to so they can pick, and choose there own schedule every year. They won't say that, but it is what it is.

 

Note Dame? Must be French or something.

 

Just curious, who would you have brought in over Bama? It feels kinda wrong to punish them for making it to the Conference Championship Game. Had they not qualified they would've been 9th and pretty much guaranteed a spot in the playoff. I get that BYU feel slighted because they lost the CCG and missed, but their resume was just not good enough outside of it. Their two losses were to TTU, but they lost those games a combined 63-14... They got blown out. Had they played a couple close games, there might have been a conversation to be had for them to make it over Miami. I get Bama lost pretty handily, but they also beat Georgia AT Georgia this year... so idk.

The committee did right by leaving Bama in IMO. They also did right putting Miami in over ND. The committee can think that ND is better (which they might be), but still leave them out because head to head mattered. If the situation was different and Miami was 10 and ND 11 and ND beat Miami, I'd argue for ND. I have no vendetta against them... I just think that the argument that "we were ranked ahead of them all year" is meaningless. It came down to two teams for the last spot, and those two teams (luckily) played each other during the season. The team that won should go.

 

For football reasons, joining the ACC makes way too much sense. That conference is garbage and they already played 6 ACC games this year. They could've just dropped the Arkansas and Purdue games and played 2 ACC teams and had a full ACC schedule. They'd win that conference easily.

Money reasons is another story (and that is the reason why they wont do it). They have a TV deal worth around $25m annually with NBC (and rising with other negotiations, which could see this rise to an estimate of near $70m annually), they don't have to split CFP payouts with the conference ($20m just last year alone), and they get to keep all revenue they get from their scheduling... They make currently close to $150m a year for their football program alone (which will go higher as their TV deals increase). They wont join a conference because of this. They will stay independent and keep raking in the cash. I wish that things like this continue to happen to them. They don't get to exist as "special" so they can rake in the cash, and ALSO get "special" treatment when it comes to CFP committee decisions. Screw them.