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The Notre Dame locker room was apparently an “ugly” place after Ohio State’s 34-23 victory over the Fighting Irish in the College Football Playoff national championship on Monday.
Dan Wolken, a national columnist for USA Today Sports, described it as a tense environment, with players yelling at reporters in a tweet posted after the game — which led to some blowback online.
“Bizarre scenes from the Notre Dame locker room, players yelling at reporters, coaches warning people not to ask certain questions,” Wolken wrote on X, adding, “Amateur hour.”
The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect, but it ended up where it was supposed to.
a worthy national champion with exciting, close games in the later rounds when the best teams faced one another.
It gave us awesome scenes on campuses around the nation, created new legends and showed how a sport so steeped in tradition can evolve when faced with new demands from its fans and business partners.
Here are four reasons why the new version of the College Football Playoff worked – and the areas that can still be fixed.
The Hoosiers lost only once in the regular season – to eventual national champion Ohio State. The Mustangs had lost twice, once to Brigham Young University and again in the ACC championship game to Clemson.
In the first year of the expanded, 12-team playoff, could the committee really leave out a major conference team with 11 wins and punish another one for playing for a conference championship while other teams sat at home? Warde Manuel, the University of Michigan athletic director who served as chair of the committee, said they could not.
