"Despite winning every game for nearly three months, No. 9 Notre Dame dropped a spot in the final College Football Playoff rankings Sunday and was left out of the 12-team bracket entirely. It was a hard fall from the couch. The Fighting Irish, which won its last 10 games by an average of nearly 30 points, watched championship weekend from afar, idle as an independent with no options to impress the selection committee one last time in a league title game."
"With BYU losing to Texas Tech in the Big 12 title game, the committee ranked Miami and Notre Dame next to each other and turned to the head-to-head metric to determine which one would get the No. 10 seed. It was Miami, which beat Notre Dame 27-24 in Week 1 of the regular season. The Hurricanes will play at Texas A&M in the opening round of the playoff."
"But no one has a bigger gripe than Notre Dame, which dropped one spot after beating Stanford 49-20 and then fell another while not playing. Fans online already started demanding the Irish boycott their bowl game, cancel their scheduling agreement with the ACC and reassess future slates. Some called for Bevacqua to be fired. Notre Dame lost consecutive games to open the season against teams that made the playoff Miami and Texas A&M, by a combined four points."
Notre Dame, ranked No. 9, dropped out of the 12-team College Football Playoff despite a 10-game winning streak and a dominant scoring margin. The Fighting Irish had no conference title game to provide a final chance to influence the selection committee as an independent. The committee used a head-to-head tiebreaker after BYU lost in the Big 12 title game, awarding the No. 10 seed to Miami, which beat Notre Dame 27-24 in Week 1. Miami will face Texas A&M in the opening round. Fans and some officials responded with anger and calls for institutional changes.
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