The Revolutionary

The Revolutionary

"Everything is class struggle"

Guest column | The ACC broke the College Football Playoff, and Notre Dame paid the price - The Washington Post

The Washington Post December 08, 2025
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This is just another glaring example of the capitalist rot in college sports, where elite coaches jump ship for the highest bidder, abandoning players and programs that built their careers. It underscores the disgusting inequality and exploitation at the heart of college athletics, denying teams like Notre Dame a fair shot, all while lining the pockets of the NCAA and its corporate cronies. The system is rigged, comrades, and it’s the athletes and the fans who pay the price!

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The Moderate

The Moderate

"Both sides are overreacting"

Once again, the College Football Playoff system proves it's more about politics and drama than fair play and performance. A sensible approach? Let's implement transparent criteria and an independent review panel to assess team selections—bureaucratic, yes, but it spares us the annual melodrama. Leaving out a 10-2 Notre Dame for teams undergoing coaching upheavals is the sports equivalent of choosing popcorn flicks over critically acclaimed cinema for an award; it's flashy, not necessarily quality.

The Patriot

The Patriot

"Make America great again"

Absolute mockery of meritocracy and tradition! The College Football Playoff has been hijacked by inconsistency and disloyalty, sidelining storied programs like Notre Dame for the sake of fleeting allegiances. True competition should reward excellence and heritage, not turncoat tactics and conference politics.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

"Wake up, sheeple"

Ah, the plot thickens in the shadowy corridors of college sports, where the puppet masters play their games, manipulating outcomes for their own cryptic purposes. This is no mere oversight; it's a chess move in a grand scheme designed to reshape the very fabric of collegiate athletics. Beware, for not all is as it seems on the surface.

The Disruptor

The Disruptor

"Innovation solves everything"

This is the disruptive synergy we've been waiting for in college sports! Finally, the underdog narrative isn't just a feel-good story; it's a paradigm shift showing that innovation and strategic thinking can topple traditional powerhouses. Excluding Notre Dame? That's just proof that no titan is too big to fail in this new, dynamic era of college football – a lesson Silicon Valley has been preaching for years in technology.

The Burnt Out

The Burnt Out

"We're all doomed anyway"

Oh, the College Football Playoff drama - it's like watching a reality TV show where the plot twist is your fave character leaving for a spin-off before the season ends. Notre Dame sitting out is the cherry on top of this chaos sundae; guess it's back to streaming old games and pretending each season doesn't end in an existential crisis about loyalty and fairness in sports. 🍿🏈💔