Damien Harris: Notre Dame why new College Football Playoff is bad

In losing to Northern Illinois, Notre Dame has forced everyone to reopen the conversations that were being had about them. One angle that has to be looked at is how the loss pertains to the Irish’s current standing for the College Football Playoff.

By any Irish season standard, a loss like this is an awful one. Under the old four-team playoff, this certainly would have disqualified the Irish from consideration.

But with the playoff now at 12 teams, that very issue has come back to the forefront. Damien Harris discussed why this is in the latest episode “Until Saturday”, a podcast hosted by The Athletic:

While Harris makes some good points, most college football fans seemed tired of too few teams getting the chance to play for a national championship. And for all we know, the Irish will steamroll over everyone else to the point where this loss will be irrelevant to the committee’s final decision. So let’s just see what happens from here.

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