Mike Ryan Ruiz

And I'm with you.

I kind of feel like it's hard to turn to the Big 12 and the ACC and say two group of fives get in and only one of your little conglomerate get in.

I'm with you.

When I was laying my head down to go to sleep on Saturday night, I was like, I guess I want Duke to win because it's a little extra.

But the CFP has been consistent and strong, stronger than anything else when saying the Duke victory had nothing to do with this.

Virginia would have gotten in automatically.

But I want to talk about what Amin referenced, which was it did seem like Notre Dame got caught with their pants down here.

and I know what their AD is saying right now.

Their AD is taking it out on the ACC, not a fan of how the ACC have taken to their social channels.

Remember, Jim Phillips kind of stayed out of this, and he just answered, yeah, Miami deserves to be in, not really taking shots at Notre Dame.

second i thought we were on the same page you didn't want anything and now all of a sudden i'm wrong so to tell the audience uh pete pavacqua the notre dame ad went on dan patrick's show and he said the acc did quote permanent damage to its relationship with notre dame for all the anti-irish playoff politicking the conference publicly leaned into in this lead up to the selection show

Again, you approach this with an arrogance, thinking that head-to-head ultimately wasn't going to matter.

I think he also knows that this is deflection, right?

He's an administrator, and a lot of Notre Dame fans are upset that he wasn't out there publicly campaigning more, getting out in front of this.

Notice he's turned his ire to the ACC, who he has some sort of brilliant partnership with, where he gets all the benefit of the relationship, doesn't have to share any of the revenue with them.

Yeah, they don't give him any money, right?

No.

So, whoa, we're shocked that the ACC is backing one of the teams that it actually has to share revenue with rather than a team that has the sweetest deal in all of the sport, that if they make the playoff, none of their success is the ACC's.

When Notre Dame is considered for these pools, even though they basically play an ACC-lite schedule, they're not part of the ACC narrative.

The ACC is a joke.