College Football Playoff committee sparks frenzied debate as Notre Dame kept out of final field

Notre Dame ended the regular play with a 10-2 grounds and ranked No. 10 successful the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings going into league title weekend.

The Fighting Irish didn’t play implicit the play arsenic the shot programme is not a portion of immoderate conference. Notre Dame was successful the tract implicit BYU and Miami with assemblage shot fans clamoring for the Hurricanes to get into the tract fixed their triumph implicit the Fighting Irish successful the regular season.

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Notre Dame moving backmost Jadarian Price (24) is tackled by Stanford information Darrius Davis (29) during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot game, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, successful Stanford, California. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

On Sunday, the College Football Playoff Committee chose to support the Fighting Irish retired of the field. Miami made the College Football Playoff, arsenic did Alabama contempt having 3 losses. The Tulane Green Wave and James Madison Dukes besides made the last tract arsenic being the champion teams to triumph their league championships. The Duke Blue Devils won the ACC, but were held retired of the tract with 5 losses connected their resume.

The assemblage shot satellite weighed successful connected Notre Dame being near out.

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Notre Dame moving backmost Jeremiyah Love, center, celebrates with teammates aft scoring a touchdown during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Stanford, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, successful Stanford, California. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

CFP Committee Chair Hunter Yurachek said the committee decided to leap Miami implicit BYU aft the Cougars mislaid successful the Big 12 Championship to the Texas Tech Red Raiders. It was BYU’s 2nd nonaccomplishment to Texas Tech during the season.

Then, Yurachek said the committee did a side-by-side examination betwixt Notre Dame and Miami and decided to support the Fighting Irish retired of the bracket.

"You look astatine those 2 teams connected insubstantial and they were astir adjacent successful their docket strength, their communal opponents, the results against their communal opponents, but the 1 metric we had to autumn backmost connected was the head-to-head," Yurachek said connected ESPN. "I charged the committee members to spell backmost and ticker that crippled due to the fact that it was truthful acold backmost and we got immoderate absorbing statement from our coaches connected what that crippled looked like.

"With that successful mind, we gave Miami the motion implicit Notre Dame into that 10 spot."

Notre Dame backmost CJ Carr (13) runs with the shot during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Stanford, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, successful Stanford, California. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

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Yurachek said that the committee felt that Miami should person been ranked up of BYU aft the Cougars’ show successful the Big 12 rubric crippled and past the committee compared the Hurricanes with the Fighting Irish.

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