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Notre Dame football finished its 2025 regular season with a 10-2 record after a 49-20 win over Stanford.
The team has won 10 consecutive games, making a case for a College Football Playoff spot.
Despite a loss to Miami, the author argues Notre Dame is as worthy of a CFP bid as other flawed, contending teams.
That is a College Football Playoff team.
Even as late Saturday night became early Sunday morning and the 2025 regular season wound down, that is a College Football Playoff team.
Even 2,200 miles away on television, that is a College Football Playoff team.
Even in a 49-20 snoozer of a win, that is a College Football Playoff team.
Maybe Notre Dame football won’t do what it did last season in hosting a CFP game, but the Irish, after wrapping 2025 with 10 str

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