Now that the Notre Dame football team has finished its regular season, it can only sit and watch and wait. While teams like Georgia and Alabama or BYU and Texas Tech will do battle in conference championship games, the Irish are reduced to politicking for a spot in the College Football Playoffs.
Head coach Marcus Freeman understands the assignment. Not long after the Irish dispatched the Stanford Cardinal, Freeman made his case for why his team should be in the CFP as an at-large bid despite starting the season 0-2.