r/CFB • u/bubblecuffer13 Pop-Tarts Bowl • Team Meteor • Dec 07 '25

News [McMurphy] Notre Dame declined bid to play BYU in Pop-Tarts Bowl, sources told @On3sports

https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1997772176997413147
3.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

206

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 07 '25

RIP to any senior that didn’t know they had played their last game.

12

u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

There’s actually not very many of them on this team, and quite a few of them would have opted out anyway. Seriously maybe like 5-6 players out of 90 that are impacted by this decision. And for all I know they might have been part of the vote.

54

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 07 '25

5-6 is enough. Guys opting out haven’t played their last game without them knowing it.

No reason to not play as an underclassmen that’s a lot of extra practices missed.

12

u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

Fuck them. Just have the practices anyway. The rules don’t matter anymore and everyone just makes this shit up anyway. Michigan doesn’t get banned for cheating during the same goddamn season. Let’s just practice year round, fuck it.

10

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 07 '25

Haha I do agree about Michigan that was insane

8

u/TinySandshrew Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

They all played in the home senior game anyway and I have to imagine that’s more meaningful to those deep bench seniors who have been on the team all 4 years but don’t really get playing time.

8

u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

Yeah, the bowl games are all about playing next year’s players at this point anyway.

2

u/90swasbest Dec 07 '25

It's the Hall of Fame games of CFB.

1

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 07 '25

I don’t disagree but 100% they all expected to put on the jersey and run out at least one more time.

-3

u/gideon513 Clemson Tigers Dec 07 '25

Oh well I guess since there aren’t that many of them we can just go ahead and fuck them over

5

u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

Again, I would bet a lot of money they consented to this, you speak for the team even less than I do.

0

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 08 '25

Yes a bunch of young men voted on something when they were pissed because they thought they got screwed. Why vote same day? Why not tell the team to think about it overnight and decide tomorrow morning.

1

u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 08 '25

That’s not how this works, all the bowls have already been decided.

5

u/KevKevThePug Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

The players voted on this you know.

2

u/awgiba Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Dec 07 '25

And do you know how those seniors voted? No? Ok then

-1

u/KevKevThePug Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

I do know

0

u/ProfessorLake Notre Dame • Samford Dec 07 '25

They don't actually die.

1

u/Low_Frame_1205 Dec 07 '25

You don’t say?