ColoradoElkHerd

CFP needs to grow a spine and tell ND there is very little chance for you to get into the CFP with this schedule even if you are 12-0.

That schedule is pathetic.

Good for Mississippi State stepping up and accepting a good bowl game!

Playing Florida?

Sounds reasonable to me. Punish a championship game loser and the championship games disappear.

They thought they were smart scheduling only two decent games but it backfired and they lost both of them.

Now they aren't being coddled and put in the playoffs so they are taking their ball and going home.

SOR ranking makes a lot more sense. Indiana ay #16 in SOS destroyed any faith in that metric.

Somebody needs to tell him your team has to be good enough to be selected for the CFP before you can play in the CFP.

We played the schedule Stankey told us to play. Yall come to Kyle Field in a couple of weeks.

OP it's gonna be Aggies vs. Bama. But we will welcome the opportunity to beat you again.

Really hard to understand why a ND fan is slumming around with all us heathens on this board.

AI based CFP ranking projection which accounts for committee dumbassery

Projected CFP Top 12 (Selection Day – Dec. 7, 2025)

1. Indiana — The lone unbeaten left and Big Ten champ after a 13-10 win over Ohio State should be the committee’s easiest No. 1 call.
2. Ohio State — A narrow title-game loss to the new No. 1 is still a résumé strong enough to hold a top-two slot and a bye.
3. Georgia — The SEC champ’s emphatic 28-7 win over Alabama should cement a top-three ranking.
4. Texas Tech — Dominating BYU 34-7 to win the Big 12 should keep the Red Raiders safely in the bye range.
5. Oregon — Idle but steady, with a one-loss profile that still stacks up cleanly against the at-large pack.
6. Ole Miss — The Rebels’ position is helped by their top-end wins and the chaos below them.
7. Texas A&M — Still a high-end one-loss team in the committee’s eyes, even without a title-game boost.
8. Oklahoma — A stable host-range team unless the committee rewrites the middle of the SEC/Big 12 stack.
9. Notre Dame — The Irish benefit from BYU’s loss and Alabama’s third defeat, and should remain solidly in.
10. Alabama — The committee likely drops the Tide but may still keep them just inside the field based on overall résumé despite the 28-7 loss to Georgia.
11. Tulane — Winning the American over North Texas 34-21 should secure the top Group of Five position.
12. James Madison — The Sun Belt champ’s 31-14 win over Troy gives the committee a clean way to award the fifth automatic champion slot over a five-loss ACC champ.

Comments? I am not endorsing this but did instruct the model to account for comments and implied policies the CFP committee is using.