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He's always had terrible ball security. At Alabama he fumbled all the dang time.

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ND half-way kinda-sorta but not really joining the ACC was always ridiculous.

That have no historic ties with any traditional ACC program..

Geographically and culturally they belong int he Big Ten.

The overwhelming social media consensus on bowls is that they are meaningless and pointless because nothing is at stake. There's no "reason" to play them.

There's this underlying idea that if no championship or money is at stake, why bother?

But using this logic 99.99% of all sport events are equally meaningless. If you start the year 0-4 why not just cancel the rest of the season.

Don't most college athletes play sports just because they like them? The rowing team is just out there because they like to row for some reason. It's fun to compete and try to win, no matter what it is.

There's this weird fixation now on "what's in it for them??" behind every single thing.

Aren't these rosters full of guys who just like playing football? Only a tiny % of players go to the NFL or make big NIL money.

Pretty sure something like Tulsa vs UTEP has never mattered in terms of championship or money but they play it.

The meaningless of bowls hasn't changed at all now vs the past, but the public perception of them changed dramatically. Everything seems to be seen through this highly transactional lens.

OU? Shafted today?

I'll add that to the list, we are up to about 15 teams that were "shafted" today by my count.

Dropping BYU a spot was just a flimsy excuse for why they were about to move Miami in front of Notre Dame.

The real reason was because the committee knew they had fricked up by having Notre Dame too high for too long and they couldn't just say that so they were gradually replacing them with Miami over a few weeks time and making up bullshite to do so.

They can't say that so they have to like invent bizarre reasons for the moves.

They have actually done this several times over the years. They should really stop putting out rankings earlier in the season as those rankings are often times horribly flawed and when they try to "fix" them it creates obvious bullshite they have to do.

Writing in special rules for specific teams is beyond corrupt.

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College football fricking blows now

Anyone who defends the current state of the game is a moron

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The doomsayers were right about everything.

Paying players, allowing transfers, big playoffs. They've all been a disaster for the essence of college football.

Notre Dame has absolutely no legitimate argument whatsoever.

Alabama's metrics on paper are light years better.

Notre Dame and Miamis metrics are virtually identical but Miami beat them.

So what exactly is this supposed controversy?

With these three teams and two spots I think it's completely clear-cut.

The committee created this fake controversy by having Notre Dame slightly too high the entire back half of the season.

OU is the weakest team in the field by a longshot according to the betting markets (minus the group of 5).

Indiana is obviously legit but will they be able to emotionally come down and prepare for the real postseason?

For having to play in the first round in the road, we have the most desirable path.