The College Football Playoff field is officially set and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua wasn’t exactly pleased with his team not making the 12-team field.
In a scathing attack on the ACC, Bevacqua suggested the conference made a disinformation campaign against Notre Dame in an effort to have the Miami Hurricanes make the playoff. He also suggested Notre Dame went on a dominant 10-game winning streak to close out the season after starting 0-2 with loss to Miami and Texas A&M.
In the end, the committee chose Alabama and Miami over Notre Dame – and both teams appear to be in the crosshairs of ESPN‘s college football pregame show.
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During a recent appearance on the “SVPPod”, Stanford Steve appeared to reveal the network’s plans for “College GameDay” for the first two games of the playoff.
“Yeah, I’m gonna guess we’re going to double dip again, also, for GameDay. Alabama-Oklahoma going to be the Friday night game on the 19th, Miami-A&M is going to be noon game, Saturday the 20th and TNT will get Ole Miss and Tulane and James Madison-Oregon,” he said on the show.
The leak from Stanford Steve is somewhat obvious as ABC and ESPN will be broadcasting both the Alabama-Oklahoma game and the Miami-Texas A&M contest while a rival network hosts the other two games. It would be a very rare for ESPN to send its college football pregame show to a game it’s not broadcasting later in the day.
ESPN will have a much tougher decision on New Year’s Day when Texas Tech, Indiana and Georgia will face off against their quarterfinal opponents.
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