Welcome to This Week in Our Dumb Beautiful Sport, a weekly look at the chaos that reigns over the most perfectly imperfect world of college football.
The College Football Playoff is here! Everyone is furious! There's no better time to be a fan of the dumbest, most beautiful sport on the planet.
NOTRE DAME GOT WHAT IT DESERVED (AND BAMA WOULD HAVE TOO)
In what ended up being a three-team race for two spots, Alabama and Miami (Fla.) survived and Notre Dame was left on the outside looking in. The Irish responded by taking their ball and going home, lest they accidentally be forced to play a team with a pulse in a bowl game.