One of the hottest teams in the country over the last two-plus months will not be in the College Football Playoff.

Notre Dame, despite a 10-game winning streak, was left on the outside looking in. Alabama received the ninth seed and Miami was given No. 10. The Crimson Tide have been incredibly shaky for the last five weeks, barely beating SEC also-rans LSU, Auburn and South Carolina, losing at home to punchless Oklahoma and getting crushed on Saturday in the SEC championship game. Miami, which didn’t even reach the ACC title game, got in on the strength of its Week 1 win over the Irish.

Notre Dame dropped two spots in the last two weeks, even though it won its last game in blowout fashion over Stanford. Miami leapfrogged them on Sunday.

On ESPN, committee chair Hunter Yurachek said that

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