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Glad to see many waking up but it’s NEVER been results based. If so, why do preseason polls exist because they have zero results based data. It’s like saying the Braves will win the World Series when we’ve all seen it doesn’t work like that. And to follow up, why after week 1 when 65 teams...

Exactly. We are about to witness things we’ve never seen because 5-12 now matters. It’s going to be another crazy chapter in this sport. The month of November will be like watching 30 cars all coming to pit row with 2 laps left. The difference is which media talking head is better than the...

Absolutely it’s coming. I just want to get to the day where good teams have a chance for a post season. Sure, under my thinking like in every other sport, the regular season becomes devalued, but that’s how all sports at all levels are run and our society accepts it because that’s the right...

Name any other sport at any level where winning a division or conference is a prerequisite to becoming the champion? It doesn’t exist and hasn’t existed since MLB only had 4 playoff teams - which took 162 games to determine. I’d personally would love a 50 game college football season over 6...

I’m saying it now - there is no way our recruiting drops off at all after Hall leaves. He is a dinosaur. 15 - 18 year old high school kids see him and think of grandpa. If anything, our recruiting will increase because the next guy won’t have a lifetime contract and will actually have to...

When will you guys accept the simple fact that Notre Dame is a one team conference. I don’t like it either but I’ve accepted the reality. They’ll get in the playoffs in any year they are decent because they are the largest national fanbase and have their own network. The playoffs are a TV...

”if it’s what they are doing“ - how anyone today can use the word “if” just shows how deeply they have distorted the sport when even fans of teams in the ACC can say “if”. And to the earlier poster - of course the SEC and BIG would set the starting point of negotiations at 4. When the ACC...

Yeah, I remember when the ACC came together and had a press conference with all the AD’s. And then of course who could forget the boycott of bowl games. A contact page? That’s outrage? That’s a joke.

There was no need to suppress those teams at that time because it didn’t matter. Now that it matters you’ll see if you pay attention. I can’t wait to see the whining when you guys see it in action.

In what world are you living in where you saw pushback? Unless your definition of pushback is a couple of stories on ESPN followed by puff pieces on Bama and Harbaugh. Maybe you consider a worthless tweet by a commissioner as pushback. The ACC got rolled and cemented 2nd tier status. That’s...

You guys aren’t seeing that the entire paradigm has changed, yet you are using old thinking. They will get in whatever teams they want in. Throwing records around is a fools errand and is no longer a variable. Just ask FSU. Yes, teams with 2-3 losses will get in because they will simply rank...

What Notre Dame knows is as long as they are decent the TV networks who carry the playoffs will want them in. That’s all that matters. Conferences do not matter to ND. That way of thinking is over. Just be decent and ESPN will control the polls and narrative to get them in.

Not really. ESPN or whatever network bids for the games will just manipulate the polls to get ND in. What many posters have yet to grasp is the polling system dictates all of it and the SEC/BIG/ESPN triumvirate have controlled it for years. It‘s a total sham system. It’s why you won’t see a...

Wow. Glad I tuned in on the app. This team so far is freaking fun to watch.

I won’t disagree with that. I already know but if it’s going to take the rest of you another 4-5 years of data to see what is happening then no problem. The train is at full speed so no stopping it now. All we can do is sit here and watch it unfold. I give the SEC/ESPN/CFP triumvirate...

I hear you and that is great analysis. But you are bringing up examples from times where the rankings didn’t matter much. We are in an entire different era where being ranked 12th is just as important as being ranked 1st. And the committee’s ACTIONS, not words, have shown us what they are...

Forensic, you do you and I’ll do me. To come on a message board and give someone a tongue lashing I’ll just never understand. This is all in fun. We aren’t solving anything here. I have never ignored nor will I ever ignore anyone because I love everyone’s opinions. None of us are wrong. We...

Root, as pointed out the pre-season polls are so biased towards 2 conferences that it’s basically an impossibility for other conferences to have 2 top 10 teams at the end. Now with the top 12 mattering, it’s even less than a possibility. Your historical analysis is a result of the pre-season...

I guess I just understand business better than some and am not as naive as others. Watching the 2 conferences who run the sport add 2 teams coming to their conference into the playoff wasn‘t a random act. These folks are at a caliber of business acumen that us ACC fans can’t even fathom. We...

Under the assumption the SEC and BIG don’t just take it over. The BIG and SEC have a plan and they are working towards that goal. With ESPN being their partner they’ll either just take over this system or create their own. Either way, they have TV locked up. And in no scenario will they both...