As it turned out, the most important game impacting the most important decision the College Football Playoff selection committee made in 2025 took place in August.

There is nothing particularly wrong with that. All the games are supposed to count.

And yet, it is no stretch to say that line of thinking would a) only make sense to people who don’t watch pro sports, which don’t use selection committees, and b) still not make sense to anyone who cheers for Notre Dame, who were told for weeks leading up to this that its Aug. 31 loss to Miami didn’t mean anything.

Among the conclusions from Sunday’s head-scratcher of a bracket release — which dropped Notre Dame by one spot and out of the playoff even though it didn’t play last week — is that there is no reason to listen to anything the comm

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