I know a lot of it is because we are Notre Dame Football fans, but it really feels like the majority of the college football conversation over the past week is the absolute unhinged reaction to what the college football playoff will look like next season.<\/p>\n
If you remember, there was a chance that the playoff would expand THIS year. The SEC wanted 16 teams and the the Big 10 wanted 24. I can\u2019t sit here and give you the exact reasons why each league wanted the format that hey proposed, and doesn\u2019t really matter \u2014 it\u2019s staying at 12 teams (which is fine).<\/p>\n
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The number of teams aside, the format is changing for 2026. There is now an automatic bid for each of the Power 4 conference champions \u2014 meaning that the Duke Blue Devils would have been in the CFP this past year. The Group of 5\/6 bid now goes to the highest ranked team \u2014 not the highest ranked G5\/6 champion. And of course\u2026 the MOU from last spring is still in place that states the Irish will get a playoff bid as long as they\u2019re ranked in the top 12.<\/p>\n
Of course it\u2019s the Notre Dame part that has fans, media members, and a ton of wannabe personalities with podcast equipment who are screaming their heads off about the situation.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re really mad that a team which would be one of the best 12 teams in the country would be given a bid to the CFP. Seriously \u2014 they\u2019re mad about that?<\/p>\n
I guess that\u2019s the reason. Of course, they\u2019ll all give some blatantly vague and sinfully wrong reason that will involve one of these three ideas:<\/p>\n
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Notre Dame should join a conference.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame hand picks the easiest schedule in CFB every year.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame is always overrated.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not here to beat back these obviously ridiculous assessments, because it\u2019s already been argued about a million times. I don\u2019t care what Cam Newton or Stephen A. Smith have to say on the subject because those two collectively know Jack and shit about the sport they are trying to pontificate about on their show. Seriously \u2014 my two sons know more about the college football landscape than those blubbering idiots, so why should we care about it?<\/p>\n
I think the thing most people are really upset about isn\u2019t even Notre Dame in itself. They\u2019re mad that their school\u2019s conference commissioner signed off on such a deal. This is America, and the last time I checked, it\u2019s still a capitalist country. Deals are made every day. Some deals are good and some deals are bad. They think this is a bad deal for them, because it\u2019s NOT them.<\/p>\n
When fans ask the question, \u201cwhy does Notre Dame get special treatment?\u201d as they go off about the deal, their hatred blinds them from reason. It really does boil down the the cheesiest of answers\u2026 they hate us because they ain\u2019t us. Personally, I always try to stay away from saying some of the cheesy stuff that flows out of the mouths of Notre Dame fans, but there\u2019s no other real way to explain it sometimes.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the funniest part of all of this stuff is that the entire bit about the Irish is something that has been public knowledge for a year. So you really have to wonder why so many of the haters are confused and angry now? We just witnessed the Indiana Hoosiers, the worst CFB in history, win the national championship \u2014 and yet Notre Dame being allowed to play in a 12 team playoff as the #12 team in the country took the internet over last week.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s the level of hate that not even Silky Johnson could muster to win Player Hater of the Year. You\u2019re doing too much bro. You\u2019re doing way too much.<\/p>\n