and now there\u2019s a chance they cancel the upcoming series against Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cEverything is fluid right now because I don\u2019t know exactly,\u201d Del Conte said when asked if Texas will still play Notre Dame in 2028 and 2029.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns would travel to South Bend, Ind., for a game with the Irish in 2028, and Notre Dame would return the favor and come to Austin in 2029. It is still on the books.<\/p>\n
According to Texas athletic director, Chris Del Conte, the playoff picture is the issue, and most importantly, the number of teams in the field.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 is Texas afraid? Yes \u2014 they really are, and Del Conte makes it perfectly clear:<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the postseason is where you want to be. If you, in my belief, expand the playoff, you strengthen regular season. All of a sudden people are not afraid to have big games in the regular season. You can lose three games and still get in.\u201d<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter if he\u2019s right or not, the fact that this is the line of thinking athletic directors around the country are using to justify a bunch of fluff is a disease \u2014 and the college football is hurting because of it. Even if the format goes to 24 teams and programs are less afraid to play big games, it will never be the same (or even remotely close). It wasn\u2019t just about two highly ranked teams battling on the field, it was the stakes that such a game held (see Notre Dame vs USC 2005 for such a game).<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s all over, and now we just have teams running scared to a playoff they\u2019ll likely never win.<\/p>\n
Give us your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we travel deeper and deeper into the college football playoff era in the FBS, programs all over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31075,262,71527,20980,779,71525,71526,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-177751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chris-del-conte","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-del-conte","tag-notre-dame","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-notre-dame-stadium","tag-notre-dame-vs-usc","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}