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Old Line Hokie
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Old Line Hokie

Most say the Power 2 controls the CFP...

The P-2 has pretty much relegated the ACC and Big 12 to second tier status. In reality, the P-2 doesn't need Notre Dame to strengthen their football schedules. With all their power, why doesn't the B1G and SEC along with all the other conferences simply require that only schools from conferences qualify for the CFP? As for all the ACC, B1G, SEC and Big 12 schools on Notre Dame's future football schedules, why don't those schools opt out, saying they have to focus on their 9-game conference schedules and would rather play a power school from another conference. It has been done hundreds of times. How many schools on Tech's future schedules have dropped the game or series over the past decades? A dozen or more? All I'm saying is the top 4 football conferences are guilty of allowing Notre Dame to have "special treatment". If the top 4 conferences sudddenly went "cold turkey" on Notre Dame scheduling, Notre Dame would either be forced to join a power conference or lose tens of millions annually as a glorified G-5 football independent. I'm sure NBC would eventually part ways since who wants to watch Notre Dame play a schedule filled with MAC, AAC, MWC, new Pac-12, SBC teams.
Posted: 12/24/2025 at 10:19 AM ET
(In response to this post by Stech)

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FWIW, the LA Times just called Notre Dame "Cowards"
VTChip • 12/23/25 02:03 PM ET
I think USC and Lincoln RIley are more to blame **
HokiesACC2004 • 12/26/25 01:31 PM ET
Honestly for most of us USC and ND has been just another game for 3 decades
Vippie1 • 12/24/25 10:04 AM ET
Interesting point, can you name a Notre Dame Rivalry? Isolationism will
Stech • 12/24/25 02:50 PM ET
America first!**
VT ChemE 1986 • 12/25/25 10:58 AM ET
Navy**
EDGEMAN • 12/25/25 06:41 AM ET
Purdue used to be a big one for ND**
UpperQuad • 12/24/25 11:09 PM ET
Used to be **
Stech • 12/25/25 12:40 AM ET
Lost me at "LA Times"
Maroon Baboon • 12/23/25 09:49 PM ET
After Aug/Sep, ND is going to have their ACC games, and MAC teams.
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/23/25 03:27 PM ET
Except for the reality of the past two years...
SMU Pony • 12/30/25 12:11 AM ET
You should try posting somewhere where anyone cares what an SMU fan thinks.
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 09:17 AM ET
I love, love, love how much you hate SMU
SMU Pony • 12/30/25 04:32 PM ET
That response is not.....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 09:32 AM ET
I don't give a rat's ass how many games SMU wins. Someone has to lose-
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 10:11 AM ET
Thanks for the reply.....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 10:23 AM ET
SMU isn't helping the ACC by beating its brands, crashing the CFP, then-
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 10:43 AM ET
Sounds like your complaint....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 11:08 AM ET
The "free money" that the ACC is getting from SMU-
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 11:24 AM ET
The money is not nominal....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 11:32 AM ET
It's an estimated 35-60 mil, divided up into 16 varying shares.
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 11:50 AM ET
It will cost VT $3.75M to send the football team to Dallas one time?!?!
SMU Pony • 12/30/25 04:37 PM ET
Your math on the revenue is.....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 12:42 PM ET
Tell me where I'm wrong. Go ahead, I'll wait. I bet you didn't read-
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 12:48 PM ET
I read your links....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 01:03 PM ET
The ACC and Big 12 both got only ONE team in the CFP this year.
Baltimore_Hokie • 12/30/25 01:34 PM ET
We will all .....
2hhoop3 • 12/30/25 01:47 PM ET
USC is the coward
TerryD • 12/23/25 02:23 PM ET
Hey green elf, delusion and denial are bedmates of those not wanting
ancient alien 2018 • 12/25/25 06:51 PM ET
I hate Notre Dame but hes's right **
HokiesACC2004 • 12/26/25 01:32 PM ET
We'll take them. **
Big12 guy • 12/25/25 07:06 PM ET
There is a whole lot to unpack there
HokieAl • 12/23/25 02:22 PM ET
It's not hate for ND, it is their favorite treatment that's hated. Huge
Stech • 12/23/25 05:16 PM ET
Yes I understand the favoritism
HokieAl • 12/23/25 09:46 PM ET
Lol, as an ND fan....
TerryD • 12/23/25 02:25 PM ET
ND being treated like a conference unto itself is evidence of favoritism.
Hokester • 12/24/25 09:47 PM ET
Independence is the goal
TerryD • 12/25/25 09:25 AM ET
If you knew independence took away the chance of a national championship ..
Hokester • 12/25/25 11:11 PM ET
For me, yes
TerryD • 12/26/25 09:38 AM ET
LOL the ND VICTIM CARD when you get so much favoritism is a riot!!!
Stech • 12/23/25 08:54 PM ET
Most say the Power 2 controls the CFP... ◄
Old Line Hokie • 12/24/25 10:19 AM ET
Looks like things are headed this way. ND will have a hard time scheduling.**
Hokester • 12/24/25 01:10 PM ET
Again, it is reality and a long-life experience
TerryD • 12/24/25 10:02 AM ET
I've hated VPI for sixty years, so he is qualified.**
manassashoo • 12/24/25 11:15 AM ET
Well played lol**
gman86 • 12/24/25 12:32 PM ET
Avoiding the reality of preferential treatment, by playing the Victim Card,
Stech • 12/24/25 11:10 AM ET
There is a reason some students get treated
RTFC • 12/24/25 01:20 AM ET
Apparently the writer is generally anti-USC**
VTChip • 12/23/25 02:19 PM ET