Notre Dame opts out of bowl game after being left out of College Football Playoff

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish announced connected Sunday the squad volition forgo playing successful a vessel crippled aft it was near retired of the College Football Playoff field.

Notre Dame was chosen arsenic the archetypal squad retired arsenic the College Football Playoff Committee revealed the bracket for the tournament. The Miami Hurricanes skipped implicit Notre Dame to get into the Playoff portion the James Madison Dukes and Tulane Green Wave were besides deemed worthier of spots up of the Fighting Irish.

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish caput manager Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame Fighting Irish backmost CJ Carr (13) and Notre Dame Fighting Irish antiaircraft lineman Donovan Hinish (41) aft the crippled against the Boston College Eagles astatine Alumni Stadium connected Nov. 1, 2025. (Edward Finan/Imagn Images)

Hours aft the selections were revealed, Notre Dame decided to opt retired of vessel games.

"As a team, we’ve decided to retreat our sanction from information for a vessel crippled pursuing the 2025 season," the schoolhouse announced.

"We admit each the enactment from our families and fans, and we’re hoping to bring the 12th nationalist rubric to South Bend successful 2026."

Notre Dame finished the play 10-2 with its losses to Miami and the Texas A&M Aggies. Both defeats came aboriginal successful the season. The Fighting Irish were ranked up of Miami successful the penultimate release.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish backmost CJ Carr (13) calls an audible astatine the enactment of scrimmage against the Pittsburgh Panthers during the 4th fourth astatine Acrisure Stadium connected Nov. 15, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)

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While assemblage shot fans debated whether Notre Dame should person gotten into the last field, CFP Committee Chair Hunter Yurachek opened up astir the determination connected ESPN.

"You look astatine those 2 teams connected insubstantial and they were astir adjacent successful their docket strength, their communal opponents, the results against their communal opponents, but the 1 metric we had to autumn backmost connected was the head-to-head," helium said. "I charged the committee members to spell backmost and ticker that crippled due to the fact that it was truthful acold backmost and we got immoderate absorbing statement from our coaches connected what that crippled looked like.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish backmost CJ Carr (13) celebrates his touchdown with teammates successful the 2nd fractional astatine Notre Dame Stadium connected Oct. 18, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

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"With that successful mind, we gave Miami the motion implicit Notre Dame into that 10 spot."

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