With the 12 team CFP scheme (and perhaps 16 in the future) doesn’t this give Notre Dame Football a distinctly easier path to the CFP??
ND determines their own game schedule. This is the only football team allowed to decide who their opponent will be every year. ND will no longer be playing rival USC every year…but will continue to play against weaker rival Stanford every year, for example.
I’m not even going to go into ND’s exclusive deal with NBC.
I just think ND, by having the ability to give itself a favorable schedule every year, now has an easy path EVERY YEAR because of the 12 team CFP scheme.
I don’t think ND could play in the SEC and survive to compete in CFP…
yes, it’s legal, but is it fair???