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Notre Dame has taken a lot of flak since Pete Bevacqua, its athletic director, went on a media tour this week to rant about his football team’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff. Bevacqua’s beef was that the ACC, Notre Dame’s conference for all sports except football, had the temerity to lobby for the inclusion of full-time member school Miami. This was particularly relevant, as everyone knows, because the two teams were on the CFP bubble—and, as absolutely everyone knows, Miami narrowly beat Notre Dame on a last-minute field goal during their season opener on the final day in August, a veritable tie-breaker.
