re: Notre Dame changes the rules of CFP to get auto playoff bid if ranked in top 12

I am tired of Notre Dame being treated as a one team conference. It has been that way for decades.

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I don't understand how one school could get such a massive advantage over everyone else like that

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Money. Thats it.

They bring a large fan base and viewership along with them. This sport is nothing more than a financial engine. There’s no school pride or educational aspect. The last little bit that was remaining a few years ago has been beaten out of it. They will do anything and everything for more money now.

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DId USC offer to play week 0? Yes or no?

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For the 80th time, you can’t just snap your fingers and play week 0. If neither team plays at Hawaii during the season, the game has to be international. It can’t just be “let’s move it from week 13 to week 0 in the Coliseum.” It was not a legitimate, feasible offer that late in the game (which USC knew), when the assumption had been it would be played in LA. With a few years of planning, sure, it could’ve been arranged.

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They did not weasel out. They did not want to play in the middle of their conference schedule.

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The game would’ve been played at the end of the year (not middle) in LA, as it has been for a century. The fact that it’s always been played in October in South Bend has been an ND courtesy to USC so they didn’t have to deal with the weather. I’m sure ND would be happy to have it in South Bend at the end of the year instead.

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The cult at South Bend does not have to worry about a conferemce schedule which anyone with an IQ above room temperature realizes is far tougher when traditional foes are at you week after week..

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Yes, Rutgers, Maryland, Minnesota and Northwestern are more traditional USC opponents than ND.

Look, ND immediately replaced USC with a road game against a similar-caliber opponent to USC. If USC replaces ND with a week 0 game against a similar-caliber opponent to ND, then I’ll grant you that ND takes at least half of the blame, fair?

I even concede USC’s schedule is tougher in 2026 and they travel more now than they used to. It was still their choice / they were the drivers to end it, not ND.

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DId USC offer to play week 0? Yes or no? They did not weasel out. They did not want to play in the middle of their conference schedule. The cult at South Bend does not have to worry about a conferemce schedule which anyone with an IQ above room temperature realizes is far tougher when traditional foes are at you week after week..

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For the 80th time, you can’t just snap your fingers and play week 0. If neither team plays at Hawaii during the season, the game has to be international. It can’t just be “let’s move it from week 13 to week 0 in the Coliseum.” It was not a legitimate, feasible offer that late in the game (which USC knew), when the assumption had been it would be played in LA. With a few years of planning, sure, it could’ve been arranged.

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This. Regular Joe fan does not realize the nuances to playing week 0. That’s some “excuse” USC and its coward HC and AD weaseled up. Your coach also tried to weasel out of the LSU game. You’re cowards. You’re a once great, now beta program that weaseled out of the ND series because (1) You want the easiest path to the CFB Playoffs as possible; and (2) You were tired of getting your arse kicked by Notre Dame.