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Indiana earned the No. 1 seed in the 12-team College Football Playoff field, while Alabama and Miami nudged out Notre Dame for the final at-large spot.
It will be of little solace this season, but Notre Dame will be in the College Football Playoff during the 2026 campaign if the exact same situation unfolds next year.
Snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame snubbed its nose at a second-tier bowl game. The ninth-ranked Fighting Irish responded to getting dropped in the CFP rankings for the second consecutive week by turning down an invitation to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando,
It'll be an All-SEC matchup in the first round when Alabama travels to face Oklahoma in the CFP first round.
Would Miami have jumped Notre Dame earlier in the season if the Hurricanes were higher in the first set of CFP rankings?