Paul Finebaum crushes Notre Dame for ’embarrassing’ reaction to missing CFP
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish believed they were all but locked in for the College Football Playoff. They were merely waiting to find out who they’d be playing when the bracket was unveiled on Sunday afternoon. Then, in the blink of an eye, they were on the outside looking in and left out of the CFP entirely.
The Fighting Irish’s subsequent decision to decline bowl invitations has not been well received. On Monday’s episode of Get Up, Paul Finebaum lit into Notre Dame for its move.
“The crying from Notre Dame is, quite frankly, embarrassing. Everything Notre Dame has done since the moment this was announced is really beneath a great institution that should stand for principles,” Finebaum said. “Instead, they cried that they didn’t get their way and then they said, ‘we’re going home…’ like a 5-year-old.”
Finebaum added that he believes the committee got it right by picking the Miami Hurricanes over the Fighting Irish for the last at-large spot. When explaining why, he ripped them even further.
“Notre Dame had very little to show on its resume,” he said. “Had they joined the ACC — which they, by the way, are a member of in every other sport — they would have played for the ACC Championship game. They would be in the playoff today. And they wouldn’t be a bunch of sniveling crybabies, and really… the laughingstock of college football.”
The College Football Playoff will begin on Dec. 19 when No. 9 Alabama faces No. 8 Oklahoma (8:00 p.m. E.T., ESPN).
