Somebody should tell Notre Dame to shut up! Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevequa says he does not like Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti’s plan for an EXPANDED College Football Playoff format of 16 teams with the Big Ten receiving 4 automatic qualifiers (AQ’s). Notre Dame would prefer the 5+11 college football model that the SEC, Big 12, and ACC like.
Do you know why? Because the Big Ten format only has three at-large bids and the other plan has eleven. That’s eleven spots Independent Notre Dame has a chance to grab.
By the way, when are we going to quit making special rules for Notre Dame to get into the college football playoffs? It’s time to stop this! Notre Dame is no more special to college football than USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson or Alabama. It’s time we quit treating them like they are. Time to force them to join a conference and play by the same rules as everybody else. It’s time to quit giving their athletic director the same seat at the table that is reserved for conference commissioners on rules committees.
It’s also time we quit letting Notre Dame steal all of the money for their college football playoff appearances. Every other school has to share its playoff money with their conferences. In the days of revenue sharing and tough athletic budgets why do we continue to allow Notre Dame to keep all of their money? That is not a level playing field for everybody.
And if Notre Dame continues to demand their independence, then we say they can remain independent from any college football playoff format talk and keep their opinions to themselves!
By the way, that’s not all we talk about on this episode of Locked on Big Ten! We have the latest recruiting news! Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood is helping to recruit #1 rated running back Savion Hiter. And Illinois locked up 4-star quarterback Kamden Lopati. We also have the low-down on recruits Elijah Haven, Monshun Sales, Reinaldo Perez, Dewey Young and Cooper Witten as we continue to be your number one ranked source for Big Ten football recruiting news.
And finally, as we take our first look at Ohio State’s season opener against Texas, former Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer has some insight on Arch Manning. We discuss it here on your top source for Big Ten news, analysis and opinion on Locked on Big Ten!
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