CFP Bracket is SET! 🔥 Alabama & Miami are IN ... Notre Dame is OUT! | Always College Football

The college football bracket is set and McElroy is here to give you his reaction. Indiana, Ohio State and Oregon lead the BIG 10 with 3 of the Top 5 teams while the SEC gets five in. McElroy goes over the debate between Alabama, Miami and Notre Dame and what potential changes we could see in future playoffs because of it. Plus, Notre Dame opts out of the bowl game, what impact will that have on 2026 Fighting Irish.

0:00 Welcome to Always College Football!
1:55 Indiana sits at No. 1 seed
4:18 Ohio State is the No. 2 seed
5:30 Georgia sits at No. 3 seed
7:34 Texas Tech gets the No. 4 seed
9:33 Not a huge surprise Oregon was No. 5
10:36 Should A&M be the No. 6 seed over Ole Miss?
12:25 Oklahoma is in at No. 8
13:22 Alabama: who got in and who should’ve gotten in
16:58 The committee did not want to de-incentivize conference championship games
19:30 Miami over Notre Dame-Head to Head matters
25:25 The committee's biggest flaw is recently
27:18 The threshold you need to be above to make the playoff
30:39 No one can explain conference championship tiebreakers
32:42 Notre Dame is the next biggest "what if" in college football
37:27 Oklahoma vs Alabama
38:05 Teaser of a CFP preview

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