Notre Dame Ripped for 'Loser Behavior' After Team Pulls Out of Bowl Game
By: SI
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The Irish don't want any part in bowl season—just the CFP.
Miami got into the playoffs over Notre Dame, much to Irish fans' chagrin. / Nelson Chenault-Imagn ImagesIn this story:
The Fighting Irish didn't make the College Football Playoff this year, and it's safe to say they're not taking the snub well.
Indeed, shortly after news of their exclusion was made public, Notre Dame's football team announced that, in light of the CFP committee's decision, it would not be participating in a bowl game this season.
Now, while there are certainly those in the college football world who understand and support this decision, there is also another subsection of fans all too happy to rip the Irish for what they believe to be salty, sore-loser behavior (and not just because ND's game likely would have been the fan-loved Pop-Tarts Bowl).
Take a look at that roasting below:
Rejecting a bowl bid with a current HC not being replaced just because you didn't get what you want is childish and petty
Should be an auto bowl ban for several years https://t.co/Prln6ILpjz
— Aaron Borgmann (@RehabAllStar) December 7, 2025
That will show the committee. https://t.co/HVpypkYYqG
— David P. Samson (@DavidPSamson) December 7, 2025
This is incredibly lame https://t.co/pXUrB8p4Ww
— Scott Coleman (@scottcoleman55) December 7, 2025
I always say, if things don't go your way, take your ball and go home. Stop playing all together.
Motivational. https://t.co/SWg9FOfFr8
— Tim Donnelly (@DonnellySports) December 7, 2025
Join a conference, sore losers. https://t.co/sSzCnpektk
— David Bishop (@dlb100b) December 7, 2025
Have some respect for bowl season.
If you want to be in the playoff, win more games. https://t.co/gGbOsBZ4gy
— Andrew Alix (@AndrewAlixRadio) December 7, 2025
Bunch of cry babies https://t.co/pay0yzlQPA
— Dante J Furco (@DanteFurco) December 7, 2025
pic.twitter.com/v0teiQ86KM
— kyler (@KyBeaty) December 7, 2025
The lesson here, kids, is that if you don't get what you want, go home and pout. https://t.co/AJQXTcRbnQ
— Louie Vaccher (@WildcatReport) December 7, 2025
I think this is incredibly lame. I get it, you're upset. Fine. But this would be a major platform for the school, program and a way for this particular team to be together one more time. Nothing says football economics like this. https://t.co/jdNNFlhPfp
— Adam Kramer (@KegsnEggs) December 7, 2025
Let someone else make money for ESPN in the Pop Tarts Bowl. https://t.co/ezDad59RCI
— Jeff Pojanowski (@pojanowski) December 7, 2025
Oh you think you're too good for the poptart bowl???? https://t.co/GZO9mxNnz1
— Lucy Rohden (@lucy_rohden) December 7, 2025
This is embarrassing. https://t.co/7lm0h7K9N4
— Kayce Smith (@KayceSmith) December 7, 2025
You should be embarrassed for doing this. https://t.co/1wTOvrBCUE
— Michael Borkey (@MichaelBorkey) December 7, 2025
Takes away practices for young guys and opportunity for players to get better. Throwing a tantrum because you didn't win enough games. Smart! https://t.co/sTrJX2mT4G
— Josh Henschke (@JoshHenschke) December 7, 2025
So win a game that matters next year. Solved your problem. https://t.co/DqvaDSppel
— Bobby Reagan (@BarstoolReags) December 7, 2025
Call this what it is: self-righteous loser behaviorhttps://t.co/1jxTnlzZie
— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dieter) December 7, 2025
Although Notre Dame finished the 2025 season with the same record as Miami, the Canes did beat the Irish back in Week 1. And in the end, that seems to have been what vaulted the U over ND and into the playoffs, even if the committee ranked the Irish above the Canes in multiple instances before Sunday.
"Overwhelming shock and sadness," athletic director Pete Bevacqua told Yahoo Sports on Sunday, referring to the committee's decision. "Like a collective feeling that we were all just punched in the stomach."
Now, instead of showing the CFP what a mistake it made in leaving them out of the dance, the Irish will instead be done for the year. No doubt this choice will be debate fodder for seasons and seasons to come.
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I dont blame Notre Dame at all. They have one of the best teams in the country and were skipped over for the playoff.
Good for Notre Dame for standing up against a corrupt system and preventing ESPN from profiting off them after ESPN spent the last two weeks shamelessly promoting those teams in conferences they control the rights to (SEC). Nothing worse than a system that claims to be based on objective criteria being manipulated by dishonest people who abuse their positions.
ND lost to Miami in August. It's not a secret. For the last month the Committee ranked Miami behind ND. When both teams seasons ended, Miami was behind ND. Then a week later, after neither team played, the committee suddenly promotes Miami ahead of ND, because they apparently just learned of the game in August.
Even more egregiously, they left Alabama in it's spot even after Georgia dominated them, and that's putting aside that Alabama was even promoted past ND the week before despite getting pushed around by a 5 win Auburn team. In the last ten years, every single team in a conference championship that lost and was in a playoff position moved down at least one spot. Every single one. The exception? Alabama in 2025, one of the few who got crushed. ESPN and the SEC wanted 5 teams in the playoff and Alabama, the 5th SEC team, was kept in to make sure it happened.
The ESPN talking heads (and others) couldnt accept Alabama being "punished" for losing badly in the SEC Championship. But if Alabama had won they would have been fine with moving Alabama up 5 or 6 spots. In reality Alabama had everything to gain ( a potential bye) and nothing to lose by playing Georgia.
The reason ND is doing the right thing by boycotting a bowl game is because the playoff system makes the playoffs all or nothing, de facto the rest of the bowl games are meaningless (that is why so many Florida State players opted out of their bowl game a few years ago.)
I read that betting simulations would make ND favored against all three of Oklahoma, Alabama and Miami in a game played today.
A lot of people hate Notre Dame and worship the SEC and the committee fell for it.