{"id":77048,"date":"2025-12-09T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77048\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:03:21","slug":"urban-meyer-endorses-miami-getting-in-college-football-playoff-over-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77048\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer endorses Miami getting in College Football Playoff over Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urban Meyer<\/a> didn\u2019t hesitate when asked whether Notre Dame<\/a> deserved to be slotted ahead of Miami<\/a> in this year\u2019s College Football Playoff<\/a>. Speaking on The Triple Option<\/a> podcast, Meyer made it clear<\/a>. He believes the Hurricanes\u2019 r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and more importantly, their head-to-head win over the Irish, needed to carry the final at-large spot into Selection Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, they lost to them head-to-head, and I love Notre Dame. I love Marcus Freeman<\/a>,\u201d Meyer said<\/a>. \u201cThey had two quality games early in the year and they lost. Went on a run. They beat Boise<\/a> and USC<\/a>. I mean, those aren\u2019t great wins \u2014 those are good wins. So, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

The national conversation throughout the week centered on how the CFP selection committee would weigh that Week 1 matchup in South Bend. That ended in a 27\u201324 Miami win that hung over the debate all season long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite Notre Dame\u2019s strong close to the season and a surge that pushed them into contention, Meyer pointed to the simplest metric. That\u2019s the fact that the Hurricanes beat the Irish on the field. In the end, that\u2019s what mattered most to the committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That game ultimately served as the decisive data point. As the committee evaluated r\u00e9sum\u00e9s for the final at-large berth, Miami\u2019s head-to-head victory, paired with a comparable overall profile gave the Hurricanes the edge, aligning with Meyer\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Meyer reiterated his respect for Freeman and Notre Dame\u2019s late-season progress, but he didn\u2019t view their wins as enough to override the early-season result. On Selection Sunday, the committee agreed, moving the Hurricanes above the Irish.<\/p>\n

More on Notre Dame, CFP snub<\/p>\n

The outcome apparently blindsided Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua and the Irish administration. \u201cMy feelings and the feelings here are just shock. Really, an absolute sense of sadness for our student-athletes,\u201d he told Yahoo Sports on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOverwhelming shock and sadness. Like a collective feeling that we were all just punched in the stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bevacqua went even further. He condemed the weekly CFP rankings as misleading. \u201cAny rankings or show prior to this last one is an absolute joke and a waste of time,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy put these young student-athletes through these false emotions just to pull the rug out from underneath them and shatter their dreams without explanation? We feel like the Playoff was stolen from our student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on, Notre Dame announced it would decline a bowl invitation as a result of the matter. According to On3\u2019s Brett McMurphy<\/a>, the Irish were slated to face BYU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl before\u00a0opting out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether Meyer and college football pundits at large agree with Notre Dame or not, they can see the sting is evident in South Bend. Time will tell how long it takes the Irish to get over narrowly missing the playoff, but it doesn\u2019t seem like this hurt will go away gently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer didn\u2019t hesitate when asked whether Notre Dame deserved to be slotted ahead of Miami in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,10893],"class_list":["post-77048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-urban-meyer-82-ss-john-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}