Odds are pretty good, no matter what happens in Saturday’s ACC Championship Game against No. 3 Clemson, Notre Dame will make the College Football Playoff.
It would seem the Fighting Irish’s flirtation with the ACC as a full-time member in football in 2020 paid off for them and the conference. It also perhaps showed Notre Dame being a member of a conference has more of a benefit then it has an independent.
Granted the Irish (10-0, 9-0 ACC) made the CFP in 2018 as an independent. However, they had to go undefeated that year to accomplish that goal.