Playoff Committee Chairman Explains Why Notre Dame Is Ranked So Low

[El Supremo]

When the first College Football Playoff rankings were released many were surprised to see Notre Dame ranked all the way down at no. 10 considering they are no. 6 in the AP poll and their only loss was a nail-biter to second-ranked Florida State on the road.

Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long is also the chairman of the playoff committee and he was a guest on "The Dan Patrick Show" when he was asked about Notre Dame's ranking. Long explained that the loss was impressive but it was still a loss. But more importantly, Long noted that Notre Dame doesn't have any impressive wins.

"I think if you look at Notre Dame's resume at this point, they have a very close loss against Florida State on the road and it is a loss," Long told Dan Patrick. "But the rest of the body of their work against the teams they have played has not impressed the committee as much as the teams that are ahead of Notre Dame."

In fact, the committee was so unimpressed with Notre Dame's six wins, all at home and none against teams currently in the top-25, Long suggested that the Irish would have been much lower in the rankings if not for their "good loss" to Florida State.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/playoff-committee-chairman-explains-why-173006323.html

Anti-Irish prejudice? No way!

[d_r]

1. a four-team play off

isn't a very satisfactory solution. They should make a play-off between the champions of the major conferences. If Notre Dame wants to be in the playoff, they should join a conference.

[KamaAina]

2. I like an eight-team playoff better

but the university presidents would scream loud enough to wake the dead.

[d_r]

3. them and the bowl's nt

[KamaAina]

5. Well, you use the bowls as the quarterfinal round

as they are already doing with the semifinals.

[d_r]

6. They'll be afraid

people won't travel to a bowl game if there are two more games after

ETA the bowls have a 12-year contract with the current format, I wouldn't expect anything different until then just imho

[joeybee12]

7. If you only want the major conference winners, then that's 5...

and 4 doesn't work.

[d_r]

9. you'd pick three at large

or make new conferences. There are about 120+ div 1-a teams. 128/16=8. So you could have eight conferences of 16 teams each. Or there are a lot of ways to do it.

[joeybee12]

10. That's what people are proposing now...5and 3 at large, could even

be the runners-up in some conferences...this 4-system is a joke.

[JonLP24]

4. Won't matter when ASU stomps their ass

J/k I expect it to be a very tough matchup.

[joeybee12]

8. Alabama doesn't have any impressive wins...

But d-bags like this guy from the SEC want to make sure they get two of their thug schools into this bogus playoff system.