College Football Playoff selection committee chair Hunter Yurachek finally said what Miami Hurricanes fans have been waiting for. Once Miami jumped BYU, the committee compared the Hurricanes directly against Notre Dame. At that point, he said, the resumes were basically the same and the head-to-head win became the tiebreaker.
CFP Chair Hunter Yurachek:
“Once we moved Miami ahead of BYU, we had that side-by-side comparison (with ND) that everyone had been hungering for.”
Called Miami and Notre Dame’s resumes “almost equal.”
He added: “The one metric we had to fall back on was the head-to-head.