Notre Dame responded to their playoff snub by opting out of bowl season entirely. But the fallout hasn’t stopped there. Athletic director Pete Bevacqua has been on a media tour launching verbal missiles at the selection committee and the ACC.

During his conversation with Dan Patrick, Bevacqua disclosed a fascinating detail about how the decision not to play in a bowl game was actually made.

“As you’re kind of dealing with that, you start getting these calls from other bowls,” Bevacqua explained. “The role of a captain on the Notre Dame football team is a role that the program and Marcus takes very, very seriously. He talked to all the captains, said, ‘Hey, what are you guys thinking? What is the team thinking? Let’s talk about this.’ The captains and some of the other underclassmen on th

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