In addition to ripping the College Football Playoff committee, which left Notre Dame out of this year’s 12-team postseason tournament, the Fighting Irish are now venting about the ACC.
“We were mystified by the actions of the conference to attack their biggest, really, partner in football and a member of their conference in 24 of our other sports,” Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua said Monday on “The Dan Patrick Show” (h/t ESPN.com). “[T]hey have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame.”
Bevacqua is peeved at the conference for pushing for Miami (10-2) over Notre Dame (10-2) in the final CFP ranking. On Aug. 31, the Fighting Irish lost to the Hurricanes 27-24, making the CFP committee’s selection of Miami for the CFP a no-brainer given both teams finished 10-2 and had schedules of similar difficulty.
In a November tweet on “X,” the conference stated the obvious: Miami merits the CFP invite.