Notre Dame's Playoff Snub Sparks ACC Conflict & Debate

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00:00Notre Dame has now reached a new level that is Fighting Irish Athletic Director Pete Bavacqua

00:04claimed that the ACC engaged in a targeted social media campaign for Miami that led to the Fighting

00:10Irish being snubbed from the playoff that now has forever, in his words, changed the relationship

00:16between the school and the league. Well, those comments didn't sit well with the other conference

00:20commissioners as Big 12 leader Brett Yormar called Notre Dame's claims, quote, egregious

00:25and totally out of bounds. So let's bring in FOS Editor-in-Chief Dan Roberts. So Dan,

00:30is Notre Dame really sort of hurting their case right now for being included in the playoff because

00:34of how Pete Bavacqua has acted here? Well, I think there was some truth to some of the complaints

00:40at some point, and now they've gone too far. Bavacqua's been on this media tour. I agree it's

00:46been egregious, specifically not just the ACC, but they've got beef with everyone. The ACC part of

00:52this is pretty silly because, of course, the ACC campaigned for Miami because Miami is a member

00:57school for football, and Notre Dame is not in the ACC for football. So I don't know what you would

01:03expect. Now, they have specific complaints like ACC Network kept re-airing the game, the game in which

01:08Miami beat Notre Dame. Right. So look, the simplest answer to all this is they got unlucky. Next year,

01:14don't lose to the school that you end up being compared to at the end. Now, who could have seen,

01:17right? But there's just no argument to be made. You know, they ended up head-to-head compared to

01:22Miami, and they lost to Miami. What else is the committee going to use as that comp? Of course,

01:27now it has opened up a number of fascinating questions like, should Notre Dame be in a

01:31conference? I'm not sure if that would have helped or not. Are they going to join the ACC? If Notre

01:36Dame ever were to join a conference before all this brouhaha, you would have thought it would be the ACC,

01:41and there was a season during COVID where Notre Dame football was in the ACC for one season because

01:47it helped with the scheduling. You know, I think someone said at some point that, I think Yormark

01:52actually said that the ACC saved Notre Dame that one season. Right, during the COVID season.

01:55Notre Dame fans are taking issue with that. But you don't think it's going to be the ACC now. Some

01:59people say, could they go to the SEC? Could they go to the Big Ten? The likeliest thing is they stay

02:03independent because let's remember something. Notre Dame, the only school that has such an incredibly

02:07powerful, strong fan base, they're independent and they have their own media deal.

02:11Right, with NBC. That's huge. But look, in recent years, as our media guy Mike McCarthy is writing,

02:17it hasn't been as much of a TV draw. So we'll see what happens next year. Let's also remember,

02:21to be fair, that the people who talk about the schedule, they didn't even play anyone. Well,

02:25look, that's what people said about Notre Dame last year and how quickly we forget. Notre Dame was in

02:29the championship game last year. I mean, people said that they didn't have an impressive record and

02:33then they got in and they beat Alabama and Georgia and Penn State. No problem.