Congratulations to Notre Dame, the 1993 national champion.

That's the good news for the Irish, who should make immediate plans to hang a banner after the College Football Playoff selection committee, the ultimate arbiter of the sport as appointed by ESPN, declared head-to-head result the only metric that matters when ranking teams.

Pop some champagne, Notre Dame, your "Game of the Century" win over Florida State in '93 was more than enough to win you the national title. The committee is sorry, I'm sure, it took 32 years to correct the egregious error that had the Irish No. 2 and FSU No. 1 despite the head-to-head victory from Lou Holtz and Co.

Unfortunately for Notre Dame, the decision to make head to head the sole and decisive metric – trumping any semblance of a coherent process, adva

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