The College Football Playoff Committee loves Notre Dame
Digest more
Miami can’t make that SMU loss go away by arguing, underlining its win vs. Notre Dame, showing its good television appeal or humming loudly when the facts are laid out before it.
For the second consecutive week, UM is the highest-ranked team from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Because of that, Miami for the time being is slotted into the playoff field as the ACC champion — although that is far from a given with Miami (8-2, 4-2 ACC) technically on the outside looking in of the conference title game entering this week.
Quarterfinal sites below based on current College Football Playoff bowl projections.
Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday, while Alabama dropped six spots to No. 10 and was replaced by Georgia at No.