Notre Dame’s stunning exclusion from the College Football Playoff has ignited a firestorm between the Fighting Irish and the ACC that could fundamentally reshape college football’s landscape. Athletic director Pete Bevacqua declared on the Dan Patrick Show that the conference’s lobbying for Miami over Notre Dame had caused “permanent damage” to their relationship.

The ACC’s decision to openly campaign against one of its own members (Notre Dame competes in the conference in 24 non-football sports) struck the Irish administration as a betrayal, especially given how much value ND brings to the ACC brand. But here’s the million-dollar question, or more accurately, the hundred-million-dollar question: what would it actually cost Fighting Irish to walk away from this relationship? And what exac

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