The College Football Playoff 12-team field has been released, and the Duke football program was left out in favor of James Madison and Tulane. Despite ending the regular season with an 8-5 overall record, the Blue Devils capped off the campaign with their first ACC Championship victory since 1989, taking down Virginia 27-20 in overtime. Now, with five losses, Duke never had a ton of hope to get into the field, but what the committee just did might mean that Duke accidentally just kept Notre Dame out of the CFP. There was tons of chatter throughout the back half of the regular season that if Duke won the ACC Championship, which it ultimately did, the ACC could be left out of the Playoff entirely.
Duke football indirectly just sabotaged Notre Dame from earning CFP spot
