It also kind of highlights the story we heard about Jim Phillips giving the wink and a nod about an ACC team being in the playoff this year no matter what, because it was probably an unwritten rule for the conferences this year to follow the “spirit” of next year’s rules — for them. Definitely not for Notre Dame.

The Fighting Irish entered conference championship week on the right side of the projected cut line and two spots ahead of the Hurricanes in the rankings. Neither team played a game this week, yet the committee felt it had enough evidence from the season-long results to swap them and put Miami in the field as the No. 10 seed.

After being snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame has pulled itself out of the postseason entirely. Hours after being left out of the 12-team playoff, the Fighting Irish announced that “as a team, we’ve decided to withdraw our name from consideration for a bowl game following the 2025 season,” the football team posted on X.

If Notre Dame is in this same position next year, they won’t have to worry about another College Football Playoff snub.

The ACC also wants to explore reducing or eliminating the weekly release of the College Football Playoff selection committee's top 25 rankings

Notre Dame football will see plenty of transfer movement following the 2025 seasons, and here is every move that is made.

Every television show and many other forms of entertainment schedule themselves to stay out of the ratings behemoth that is the NFL. College football is one of them. The sport already schedules most its marquee postseason events to avoid the NFL;

The No. 12 Clemson Tigers and Georgia Tech will kick off their ACC schedules when the two clash on Saturday. Clemson (1-1) is coming off a closer-than-expected 27-16 victory over Troy last week, after the Tigers dropped their season opener to LSU.