USA Today takes an elephant sized dump on ND

[MiamiInvestor]

Deal with it, Notre Dame. CFP, bowl season doesn't need Irish anymore

Bye, Notre Dame. Don't let the bowl door hit you on the way out.

www.usatoday.com

 

[grover]

Facts

 

[Canesrule230]

Deal with it, Notre Dame. CFP, bowl season doesn't need Irish anymore

Bye, Notre Dame. Don't let the bowl door hit you on the way out.

www.usatoday.com

Thats a good article and 100% true

 

[MiamiMD93]

Brilliant!

 

[Kjdcanefan]

*chef's kiss

 

[Calinative]

Based on what I read the ACC does pay out the $4M directly to the participating school in the CFP. $4M for making CFP, $4M for Quarterfinal, $6M for Semis, $6M for Championship appearance. It actually appears to be the clear best payout of any conference tbh. Think SEC pays $3M and B1G doesn't even award any bonus... but maybe that's changed.

Also each team gets $3M to cover expenses PER ROUND.

Then The Conference ALSO receives a $300k per team that meets APR and participates in a postseason game.

The conference itself already receives $5M per school for the CFP contract as a whole, and that is increasing to $13M/school in 2026.

And last year teams that reached a bowl game got a $1.8M distribution, teams that finished ranked in top 25 got an additional $1.8M... (and then the Basketball tourney pays $350k/$60k for each Tourney game played mens/women).

SO in total we should be getting $7.6M for participating in the CFP from the ACC. Then I think we get $3M for expenses tacked on too, so $10.6M in bonus basically.

 

[1983cane]

Domers smell that air ish.

 

[JD4]

I hope Mario and the staff get some nice performance bonuses for each round we advance in the playoffs. Reward these guys for putting together one of the baddest teams in the country.

Let’s kick TA&Ms *** and then OSU’s

 

[hoops156]

love it.

fwiw, bama shouldn't be in the playoffs. its a joke that they somehow are the only team that didnt move much at all after getting blown out to shreds.

I hope OU throttles them

 

[GonzoCane]

Good on that writer for calling ND out. Petty and petulant move, but college ball moves on.

 

[Torocane]

No lies detected

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

Deal with it, Notre Dame. CFP, bowl season doesn't need Irish anymore

Bye, Notre Dame. Don't let the bowl door hit you on the way out.

www.usatoday.com

Pulitzer worthy

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Good on that writer for calling ND out. Petty and petulant move, but college ball moves on.

Many of Matt Hayes' articles have notes of "petty" and "petulant"...

 

[Unsider]

Two things:
Did anyone send this to Gallo-choke-way?
And, this would make a perfect letter from a dumped boyfriend (definitely not me, like at all…).

 

[Unsider]

Many of Matt Hayes' articles have notes of "petty" and "petulant"...

But definitely not as bitter as Joey GALLOWINE…

 

[CreativeCane]

Two things can be true at the same time:

1. ND should have been in over Bama (just as FSU should have in 2023)
2. AND we can laugh at their ***, especially because of all the trolling they did beforehand and their entitled whiny response after. I hope Freeman goes to the Giants. Would be a cherry on top.

 

[mr.h]

Why aren’t they punished and fined for what they are saying and did.

 

[90scane]

I’m more interested in seeing if the SEC gets less teams in 2026 after they fail to make the national championship game again and only have one team in the final 4.

 

[flips]

Things are very bad when you're getting dragged by USA Today

 

[hoops156]

I’m more interested in seeing if the SEC gets less teams in 2026 after they fail to make the national championship game again and only have one team in the final 4.

this. i actually think ND got hosed bc i think theyd smoke bama.

Bama should have been the team that got left out. its a joke they didnt make it and you can thank the devotion to the machine for this bull****. they should have been lower than miami for ***** sake as the lowest at large seed for having 3 losses and getting blown out twice.