Notre Dame is saying that the ACC’s post that appears to argue in favor of Miami over Notre Dame in the playoffs has ‘permanently damaged’ their relationship.
The pundits are having fun at ND’s expense:
In my opinion, they should have to join a conference to be eligible for a CFP spot. They shouldn’t get preferential treatment in the current landscape. It was ridiculous enough in the 90s, let alone the P2/NIL era. The current arrangement benefits nobody other than Notre Dame.
I honestly don’t know what incentive P2 teams have for scheduling Notre Dame when they are already playing a 9-game conference schedule.
I’m wondering it ND is setting the stage for a lawsuit to break their ACC deal.
But would another conference take them? Their best fit is still the Big Ten, but that would give them a 19 team conference and I don’t know where they’d go for #20. FSU maybe?
Could we see a merger between the ACC and the Pac-whatever_they_are_these_days?
Does the idea of most of the D1-FBS teams withdrawing from the NCAA in football and setting up a superconference seem closer than ever? Two divisions, with relegation and promotion every few years. Biggest negative is it breaks up a lot of the long-time rivalries, I guess, though you could protect a handful of them even if half of a rivalry gets relegated down.
Mike Nolan
Not that it’d ever happen, but I think I could put together a superconference proposal that would meet nearly everybody’s objections, as long as the money is there. And we all know that money will be what makes it work.