OT: Notre Dame declines bowl bid

[EROCK CONN]

They screwed themselves over by losing to the two playoff level teams they faced

Fair comment to say they needed to win one of those games (holding on 4th and 10 against a and m notwithstanding), but you have to be able to see the powers that be protected bama and their precious conference championship games and the credibility of the actual games themselves and ND.

 

[Scoe]

Because they don’t want to benefit the people that just screwed them over ?

ND is not benefiting themselves they are only making it worse for their players and fans. And players may have agreed to this but they are not helping themselves this does not prepare you well for the NFL. Sure you will have guys drafted who do well in the nfl but that's not the majority.

You go to the bowl you dominate and you come back next year with a chip on your shoulder better then ever and you run the table, 2001 Miami did this they felt they got screwed in 2000 they still played the bowl and we see what happened in 2001 and yes I get it was back in the BCS era.

 

[Marbles90]

Do I really need to explain the differences between now and 1996?

Exactly, but Notre Dame’s arrogance hasn’t changed.

 

[BigTenFan]

The big NBC deal ND got is a distant memory. Everyone on this board can see the sport changing at light speed. ND is not must watch TV on Saturday afternoons like it used to be.

 

[rich1122]

So, it’s screw the fans. Great.

Watch Netflix

 

[storrsroars]

So the big mystery in all of CFB is now, "Who's going to play Georgia Southern in the Birmingham Bowl?"

A third tier bowl can't buy that kind of publicity!

 

[Vuce]

So the big mystery in all of CFB is now, "Who's going to play Georgia Southern in the Birmingham Bowl?"

A third tier bowl can't buy that kind of publicity!

This is the answer: UMass!!!

 

[Chin Diesel]

No one outside the top 5 is a serious contender. Never were under the old system, aren't now. 6-10 might win a quarterfinal, or make a semifinal, none are winning 3 top 10 games in a row, especially when those game aren't using the gimmick auto-byes from last season.

Anyone really think Bama is beating OU, IU then the UGa/OSU winner? And that is the most likely week 1 team to do it.

There simply aren't 10 title contenders, doesn't matter the name on the jersey, never has been. This is all for TV product quantity. ND, Bama, Miami, BYU these are place holders of varying TV interest. Has no bearing on ultimate champ.

I tend to agree. I could see an 8 seed get hot and, in a bracket tournament, have cards break right.

I don't know ow or care if CCP is a lure bracket or if they re-seed.

A bracketed tourney has way higher possibility of a 6-10 winning, but I readily admit it's low probability.

 

[Chin Diesel]

You are wrong. ND got hosed, passed over by a really suspect Alabama. And they did it, as others have stated, to appease the SEC.

Nope I'm right because I said none of them were worthy.

They had to pick some unworthy teams and ND happened to be one of them and they got passed over.

 

[businesslawyer]

Fair comment to say they needed to win one of those games (holding on 4th and 10 against a and m notwithstanding), but you have to be able to see the powers that be protected bama and their precious conference championship games and the credibility of the actual games themselves and ND.

No conspiracy necessary. Yes, Notre Dame had “good” losses, but anyone could have lost those two games. Who did Notre Dame beat? USC? Who next? Bama had an additional loss, but much better best wins. Which is why it’s computer metrics were much higher.

 

[FreeDogs]

So, just saw this ...

Big babies.

Next year will be different. They have an obligatory playoff spot if they fall in the Top 12 starting next year.

 

[Jimdish255]

This is ESPN money they flushed down the drain. Cobgrats for giving us a sweetheart deal with the ACC and seeeeyaaa!!!

 

[buddy]

I despise Notre Dame as much as Duke and Cuse

Add BC for me

 

[buddy]

typical. They always take-take-take given their unique situation. I get it makes sense to maximize your position, but at some point I think it can cross over into being immoral. They were fiven a high profile home for a LONG time in the Big East for EVERY sport besides football, and that’s when it was a HUGE boost to the second biggest moneymaker in college-mens basketball. They took ALL of those benefits and “rewarded” UConn with ONE football game in exchange for ALL they gained from UConn. For me, it is ALWAYS “F ND.” Always.

The are parasites. They sucked the life blood out of the BE and are doing the same to the ACC, who cowtowed to them instead of putting them in their place.

 

[UCFBfan]

Oh, snap.

Soooooo who is going to fill these open spots??

 

[Hogoff]

So, just saw this ...

 

[Jimdish255]

I really hate to interject another fact into what appears to be a day of bulletin board craziness, but Notre Dame declined bowl games as a school policy for a prolonged period of time that I think ended somewhere around 1968-1970. And both college football and the bowl system survived without it.

Nothing is the same as 1970. Hate to break it to you.

 

[BugsyCT]

Soooooo who is going to fill these open spots??

Whoever is next on the best APR list that's 5-7 and wants to play. Mississippi St & Rice are two 5-7 teams that have filled bowl spots.

Unfortunately there are only 4 more 5-7 teams left (App St, Marshall, Kent St & Buffalo) and two are in the same conference as Ga Southern.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Quitters never win

 

[Kolumbo]

as if Rutgers is in a position to turn down a bowl game. or Temple, or K-State...the system may be much closer to collapse than we thought
I bet Marshall 5-7 would go

 

[Hoophound]

You can’t field a real team for a bowl anymore. Nobody cares. They need to reestablish a system where bowl games matter. Why not require players to finish the season, including bowl games or forgo 30% of their NIL?

 

[HuskyFan16]

Soooooo who is going to fill these open spots??

Soooooo who is going to fill these open spots??

 

[nickp91]

Bowl games either need to be made mandatory or will slowly become eliminated as the transfer portal and the CFB playoff are making them irrelevant

 

[storrsroars]

Unfortunately there are only 4 more 5-7 teams left (App St, Marshall, Kent St & Buffalo) and two are in the same conference as Ga Southern.

You'd think Buffalo would take it just to get out of Buffalo in December.

 

[ATLDYKA]

UConn should offer to play Birmingham also. Let's play two!!