Notre Dame finished the 2025 regular season 10-2, closing with 10 straight wins and dominant margins, notably a 34-24 victory vs. No. 20 USC, a commanding 37-15 win at No.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have officially wrapped up their 2025 season as they have made a decision following missing the College Football Playoff.
With the College Football Playoff bracket unveiled Sunday, everyone around the sport had opinions on Notre Dame being left out of the 12-team field. The Fighting Irish (10-2) were No.
The expanded 12-team College Football Playoff field was revealed on Sunday, and the biggest headline came from who was left off the list: Notre Dame. Despite
Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua called for significant change to the College Football Playoff selection process after his school was excluded from the field in bizarre circumstances.
The 2025 College Football Playoff field is finalized, and despite finishing the year with a 10-game winning streak, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were excluded.
After University of Notre Dame athletic director told ESPN that the Fighting Irish missing the College Football Playoff Pete Bevacqua "felt like a rug being pulled out from them", Notre Dame has declined to play in a bowl game this postseason.
In a stunning conclusion to the college football regular season, the College Football Playoff selection committee released its final rankings on Sunday, demoting Notre Dame to the No.
Notre Dame had been ranked ahead of Miami in the College Football Playoff rankings until the selection committee had a change of heart at the last moment on selection day itself, allowing the Hurricanes to make the playoff while leaving the Irish out.
Notre Dame fans everywhere are sitting in shock right now. The Fighting Irish, despite going 10-2 and being ranked in the top five of nearly all metric-based rankings, will be sitting at home for the postseason tournament.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish finished the 2025 regular season 10-2. After opening the season with losses to the Miami Hurricanes and Texas A&M Aggies, they went on a 10-game winning streak.
The College Football Playoff selection committee made a baffling change in the rankings before unveiling the final 12-team bracket on Sunday, and Hunter Yurachek made the situation worse with the explanation he gave for what transpired.
The College Football Playoff committee has zero integrity and it showed during Sunday's selection show. Instead of getting ready for the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame will now essentially prep for the off-season as it is now likely headed to the exhibition game disguised as the Pop-Tarts Bowl.
The updated College Football Playoff rankings face plenty of complications following the conference title games ahead of Sunday's release of the final CFP bracket.
Notre Dame appears to have been a big winner on Saturday. It got help from Texas Tech disposing of BYU in the Big 12 championship while Georgia manhandled Alabama in the SEC title game.
Miami Hurricanes fans are doing everything they possibly can to send a message to the College Football Playoff selection committee amid the ongoing debate between Miami and Notre Dame.
Notre Dame football has been recruiting at a very high level under head coach Marcus Freeman, but the 2026 recruiting class takes that recruiting impact to a whole other level.
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