Notre Dame ranked #16 by the college football playoff committee for second week in a row

If you were holding out hope for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to position themselves to get a bid to play in the Cotton Bowl — the latest college football playoff rankings should all but extinguish those feelings.

For the second week in a row, the college football playoff committee has ranked the Irish at the #16 team in the country.

It’s a weird formula — basically because there is no real formula. It’s also a weird season where there are quite a few teams on their way to a 10 win season, so that loss to the Michigan Wolverines still haunts Notre Dame like the worst poltergeist known to man.