How that 2025 CFP snub helped Notre Dame football this offseason
Notre Dame football set up to make sure being left home from the 2025 College Football Playoff works to its advantage through spring, summer and fall.
SOUTH BEND ― Nobody associated with Notre Dame football could see it or sense it in the moment, let alone rationalize how it might be of help down the road. The road the Irish currently travel. Noie: Here's a story about the 1986 Notre Dame football team that you haven't heard Noie: How did a once-former Notre Dame football commitment find his way back?
From the head coach to the captains, the assistant coaches to the support staff, everyone was adrift in their own college football fog that Sunday afternoon in early December. No amount of clarity could clear their then-cluttered minds. Not after they watched the logo of the U (Miami, Fla.
) appear on television instead of an interlocking ND, which guaranteed that the 2025 Irish would not get a chance to chase a national championship. In a weird way, months later, as winter hung around South Bend with a layer of snow on the ground and a biting wind ripping through the north end tunnel area of Notre Dame Stadium, the snub of being told to sit and watch the 2025 College Football Playoff is a gift that keeps on giving. To Notre Dame.
It gave fifth-year head coach Marcus Freeman the mantra for 2026. Leave No Doubt, a phrase that Freeman first offered in January and repeated several times Wednesday during his 31-minute meeting with the media to kick-start spring practice season. Leave No Doubt during the recently completed winter conditioning program.
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