Nick Saban sounds off on Notre Dame being left out of CFP
On Sunday, the College Football Playoff selection committee pranked Notre Dame by using mental gymnastics to keep Alabama at No. 9 and move Miami up two spots after Duke beat No. 17 Virginia in the ACC championship.
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The Fighting Irish, who entered Sunday with the fourth-best odds to win the national championship, will go bowling. The selection committee ranked two Group of 5 champions, Tulane, and James Madison, above Duke, putting those programs in the final bracket.
During his appearance on ESPN on Sunday, former Alabama head coach Nick Saban argued Notre Dame, Miami and Alabama were more deserving than Tulane and JMU. He thinks the CFP rules should be changed to allow better teams in the tournament.
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“I think the fact of the matter is all three of those teams should’ve gotten in and deserved to be in the College Football Playoff,” Saban said. “And for years now we have kept tweaking the criteria of how we select teams into the playoffs.
“I think you’re going to have two teams in the playoffs–no disrespect to the Group of 5–that are nowhere near ranked as highly as teams that are much better than them.”
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A devastating decision for Notre Dame
Saban thinks ND shouldn’t have been left out of the final bracket.
“To me this has got to be devastating for Notre Dame’s team, not to get the opportunity to play in the playoffs,” Saban said. “I’m happy for the teams that got but I just think there was one team that was left out, that I just think shouldn’t have been left out.”
The selection committee thought the Irish did, and the CFP will suffer for it. It’ll be interesting to see if the playoff expands to 16 teams or if they change the criteria to make it harder for Group of 5 programs to make the CFP.
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