Notre Dame toppled No. 1 Miami, but last year's College Football Playoff snub won't let Irish exhale
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Notre Dame’s 31-24 victory over No. 1 Miami on Saturday night delivered a statement win, but the Irish quarterback Marcus Freeman insists the College Football Playoff committee’s past inconsistencies won’t be forgotten.
Freeman, who led his team to a hard-fought win, dismissed the rankings as irrelevant until the final week, a lesson learned the hard way last season when Notre Dame was snubbed despite a 10-2 record. The committee had ranked the Irish at No.
10 entering the conference championship weekend, just two spots ahead of Miami, but reversed course after the final rankings, placing Miami at No. 10 and Notre Dame at No.
11—a decision that followed a Week 1 loss at Miami. The committee’s sudden shift, despite ignoring that result for five weeks, left Notre Dame furious, prompting the team to forgo bowl participation after a dominant regular season.
With three games remaining, Freeman’s team now aims to prove the committee’s past mistakes won’t dictate their future.
