Notre Dame’s almost week-long complaining about being excluded from the College Football Playoff could have mammoth ramifications to the football program. During the “bargaining” phase of his seven stages of grieving, Irish Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua boasted that a miscarriage of justice like 2025 would never happen again, because of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Notre Dame and the Playoff Committee which would offer the school preferential treatment to getting a guaranteed spot in the playoff, so long as they finish 13th or better in the rankings, assuming the playoff expands to 14 teams or more.
Right now it’s an idle threat, without any school publicly stating their intentions
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