It was an opener Mario Cristobal and Miami desperately needed to enhance their chances of reaching the College Football Playoff this season for the first time.

For Notre Dame , Sunday night's 27-24 setback on the road snapped a 10-game regular-season winning streak under Marcus Freeman and makes other opportunities on the schedule -- albeit few -- extremely important moving forward this fall.

Miami and Notre Damę are included in our Week 2 playoff projections update , but the Fighting Irish's overall path to another berth after reaching the national championship game in January has weakened. Notre Dame has an open date prior to its home opener later this month against nationally ranked Texas A&M , the only other nationally ranked opponent on its schedule following Boise St

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