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Notre Dame's Advantage as an Independent shows up again in the CFB Playoff format · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  More. Bully says, hey, Notre Dame has well. First, he
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  said his last time he coached reck ball, he went undefeated. So there's
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  that, says. Notre Dame has proven they can be independent. Is that
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  not an option for these teams, especially Miami is a private institution. I
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  don't think so. I mean, teams have tried this, you know.
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  Do you remember when Texas at one point they were talking about this was back
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  gosh, they was almost like they were Florida State is now. They didn't
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  want to be in the Big twelve. They started the Longhorn Network, They
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  flirted big time with the Pac twelve. They talked about being an independent.
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  They never made that move. Like them or not, Notre Dame is about
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  the only one now. Obviously U Mass is independent. Yukon goes in and
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  out of conferences. It seems like they're an independent. But to really be
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  a true independent power, it looks like because of the brand and the national
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  notoriety for Not Dame, they're about the only one that can pull that off.
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  Yeah, I think so, And they've done it for so long.
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  It's not like if had Texas been doing that then I think that it would
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  have been no problem. For them to continue. Notre Dame's been doing it
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  for so long, and the money contract and the TV deal that they have
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  with NBC, and I guess now Peacock is just too lucrative for them to
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  jump into a conference. They're going to have to share the money with ten
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  other schools instead of getting it all to themselves. There may be at some
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  point, and it may be ten years from now, we may not even
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  be alive, but at some point they may have to get into a conference.
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  But I think right now they have the sweetest deal that's out there.
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  I mean, they can play conference, you know games inside the ACC in
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  all the sports. They play basically an ACC football schedule with mix mixing in
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  their rivals against USC and Stanford and a couple of the military institutions. But
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  if Notre Dame gets to ten wins this year, they're likely in the playoff.
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  I mean, whereas they were in a conference, they may not be,
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  yeah, and they'd have to play that conference championship game and risk getting
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  a loss added to their record. I think that's one thing that has hurt
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  a lot of teams over the years that had to play in a conference championship
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  game. They go in expecting to win, and all of a sudden they
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  lose, and now they're out of everything.