{"id":303679,"date":"2025-11-20T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303679\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:25:07","slug":"booger-mcfarland-reacts-to-controversy-surrounding-notre-dame-over-alabama-in-college-football-playoff-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303679\/","title":{"rendered":"Booger McFarland reacts to controversy surrounding Notre Dame over Alabama in College Football Playoff rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three two-loss teams were present in the top-10 of Tuesday night\u2019s updated College Football Playoff rankings. No. 8 Oklahoma<\/a> led the way, followed by No. 9 Notre Dame<\/a> and No. 10 Alabama<\/a>. This led to debate amongst many, who believe that the Crimson Tide boast a much stronger resume than the Irish.<\/p>\n

Alabama holds wins over four teams present in the latest CFP Rankings (No. 4 Georgia<\/a>, No. 14 Vanderbilt<\/a>, No. 20 Tennessee<\/a>, and No. 22 Missouri<\/a>), while Notre Dame is just 1-2 against such teams. The Irish downed No. 15 USC<\/a> 34-24 on Oct. 14, but kicked off the season with back-to-back losses to No. 13 Miami<\/a> and No. 3 Texas A&M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2018s Booger McFarland broke down why the committee would have put Notre Dame over Alabama in the Rankings during a hit on Wednesday afternoon\u2019s edition of \u2018SportsCenter\u2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the fact that they both have two losses lets you know that the committee views Notre Dame as the better team right now,\u201d McFarland said. \u201cNotre Dame is a hotter team. They lost their first two games, but have won eight in a row. And when you look at how they play and their physicality, they\u2019ve got the best backfield in America with Jeremiyah Love<\/a> and Jadarian Price<\/a>. The offensive line is really good. The defense is big and physical. They can cover man-to-man on the outside, and I think CJ Carr<\/a>, as a young quarterback, is starting to come along.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFarland says committee looked at teams \u2018in a vacuum\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the committee just looked at these two teams and said \u2018in a vacuum, they both have two losses. Who do we think is better right now?\u2019 And I think they deemed that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are just the better team right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut let\u2019s just remember, this is an incomplete resume. The committee has an enviable task of trying to figure out what the resume is going to look like when it ends, because we still have a couple weeks left in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both teams opened the season with a loss, but in Alabama\u2018s case, it won its next eight games before falling at home to Oklahoma 23-21 on Saturday. Notre Dame opened with an 0-2 record, but is currently in the midst of an eight-game winning streak. With both programs facing unranked teams in their final two games of the season, it may take a win in the SEC Championship Game for Alabama to jump back over the Irish in the final CFP Rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three two-loss teams were present in the top-10 of Tuesday night\u2019s updated College Football Playoff rankings. No. 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[137237,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-303679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-booger-mcfarland","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}