On Sunday afternoon, the final college football rankings were revealed, and to the surprise of many, the Notre Dame football team was not among the 12 squads to make the playoff. It was widely assumed to be a two-team race between Notre Dame and Miami for one spot in the final rankings, but up to this point, the Irish had been ahead of the Hurricanes in the rankings, causing some to wonder why they were jumped this week despite neither team having played over the weekend.
Needless to say, Irish fans on X , formerly Twitter, were not thrilled with the result.
“It’s not the fact that Miami is in. It’s the fact that the committee dangled the playoffs in front of us for so long and then switched us at the last minute after neither of us played. If they were going to put Miami in, the

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