Notre Dame Withdraws from Bowl Game Consideration After CFP Committee Snub

Breitbart ^ | December 07, 2025 | Dylan Gwinn

[Red Badger]

Notre Dame Withdraws from Bowl Game Consideration After CFP Committee Snub 5 PALO ALTO, CA - NOVEMBER 29: Head Coach Marcus Freeman of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lDavid Madison/Getty Images Dylan Gwinn7 Dec 2025296 2:55 On Sunday, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee told Notre Dame that its presence in this year’s playoff was not needed. A couple of hours later, Notre Dame informed college football that if they weren’t competing for a national championship, they weren’t interested in playing at all.

“We appreciate all the support from our families and fans, and we’re hoping to bring the 12th national title to South Bend in 2026,” Notre Dame said in a statement.

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[Red Badger]

[crusty old prospector]

I think they were hosed.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I think they were hosed.

James Madison over Notre Dame, really? ND has maybe the best offense in the country and were a favorite to win the whole damn thing. JMU is going to get killed against Oregon.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Consider this. Many of the biggest stars-pro prospects-don’t play in these games anymore. Think of the Michigan tight end. Named Butts. Tore up his knee and ruined a career before it could get started. I think this was part of it.

[crusty old prospector]

C’mon, man. Trust the committee. There is no bias there. I still ain’t figured out why Duke ain’t in. What is the point of a conference championship?

[crusty old prospector]

Get with Lloyd’s of London.

[MinorityRepublican]

James Madison over Notre Dame, really?

James Madison and Tulane over Notre Dame.

CFB Bracket is supposed to invite 12 best teams in College Football.

Instead this is a DEI version where teams from lesser conferences are invited.

[Zuriel]

I’ll give away my ignorance: I don’t even recall who won the nat title last year, but this does go against the ‘money talks’ angle. The advertisers pay for big viewership. ND would surely draw two or three times the viewers as James Madison (a school I forgot even existed).

Where’s Mary when you need her?

[whitney69]

Don’t schedule them.

wy69

[KC_Conspirator]

Boo hoo.

[allendale]

Another year without a championship for Notre Dame. Not everyone is impressed by their relatively weak schedule. When you play four subpar teams on your schedule, you tend to look better than you are. Also ever since Notre Dame, ostensibly a Catholic institution invited the bloody pro abortion Obama to give their commencement address and actually conferred on him a “Doctor of Laws” degree, they have been a cursed place and have not won any championships.

[Mozzafiato]

Notre Dame lost to the only two teams on their schedule who made the playoffs. Yeah, the format is stupid that allows Tulane and James Madison to get automatic bids for winning their conference, but Notre Dame didn’t do anything special to get in as an at-large team.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I’ll give away my ignorance: I don’t even recall who won the nat title last year, but this does go against the ‘money talks’ angle.

The committee met at 2:30 am on Sunday morning to determine the CFP field, none of them had any sleep, and they couldn't think straight. I think that's all it was.

[cherry]

A rare show of principle..

[dfwgator]

I think it’s actually pretty easy to fix the system.

1. Scrap the Conference Championship Games.

2. Only the top four teams in a conference are eligible for the playoffs

3. Instead of the Conference Championship Game, there will be a Conference Play-In game for the top four teams. The #4 seed plays at the #1 seed, and the #3 seed plays at the #2 seed. The winners automatically qualify, and the losers would have to get an at-large bid.

4. As current, seed the teams 1 through 12, if a G5 team is not in the Top 12, the #12 seed will play the top-ranked G5 team, the week before the First Round game, with the winner advancing in the #12 position.

When you looked at the Playoff Rankings, BYU was the #12 team, they would have to play Tulane the week before the First Round Games.

This would virtually solve all of the issues. Now every playoff team would have to play an extra game, and now you get the max number of good teams in the Final 12.

[Fiji Hill]

College football is getting to be too much like pro football. Here are some reforms I would like to see:

• Junk the playoffs and go back to the bowls,

• Get rid of the transfer portal.

• Get rid of the two-minute warning, which allows TV broadcasters to insert an additional raft of ads that prolong the game.

• Break up the transcontinental leagues. It's ridiculous for the Atlantic Coast Conference to include teams with stadiums from which you can see the Pacific Ocean.

• Shorten the season--no games before the autumnal equinox or after Epiphany.

• No more weekday games which can disrupt classes and force students to compete with fans to find parking spaces. The main purpose of a univresity is education, not football.

[dfwgator]

I totally agree. But it’s not gonna happen.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

This would virtually solve all of the issues. Now every playoff team would have to play an extra game, and now you get the max number of good teams in the Final 12.

I think you're solution is too complicated and involves playing too many extra games.

Of all the selection criteria the BCS/CFP used, I thought the method used in 2001-2003 was most simple and fair:

25% - Human poll average
25% - Computer poll average (couldn't use computers that applied margin of victory)
25% - Strength of schedule (good for SEC and BIG 10)
25% - Losses

Simple solutions work best. With this method, everyone knows the selection criteria throughout the season, strength of schedule is important, losses are painful in the regular season, and most importantly, this method does not use an incompetent committee that changes its own criteria and rules on the day of selection.

[dfwgator]

The problem is that the conferences have expanded so much since 2003, it used to be every team played every other team in the conference, you simply can’t do that anymore.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The problem is that the conferences have expanded so much since 2003, it used to be every team played every other team in the conference, you simply can’t do that anymore.

The NFL and NBA, and virtually every other league on the planet uses a simple mathematical formula to determine its playoff participants and there are no complaints, controversies, or confusion. If a team doesn't make it, they only have themselves to blame (like the Mets this year).

The CFP must eliminate its selection committee starting next year. There's too much bewilderment and human bias.