Paul Finebaum goes on fiery rant over CFP bias: 'Notre Dame was already in the playoff in August'

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum claimed there was a lot of bias when it came to Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff rankings. The current rankings have Notre Dame at No. 9 while Miami is No. 13 and they boast the same record.

The kicker, Miami has the head to head win over Notre Dame dating back earlier this season. Sure, the Hurricanes’ losses aren’t as good as the Irish losing to an undefeated Texas A&M team.

But, Miami beat Notre Dame head to head and Finebaum put the CFP committee on blast. He didn’t hold back on Wednesday.

“We love the college football season, but I don’t know why we waste time with it considering Notre Dame was already in the playoff in August,” Finebaum said on Get Up. “I mean, Notre Dame lost its first two games of the year. They lost to Miami, and now they’re ranked ahead of Miami. So why don’t we just go ahead and put them in? We’ll save all the aggravation and the indigestion.”

To be fair to Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman and crew have won eight games in a row and look like a totally different team. Although they could’ve beaten Miami and Texas A&M, they didn’t.

“I’ll continue my rant about Notre Dame,” Finebaum said to host Mike Greenberg. “I’ve been hearing and you’ve been hearing because you lived near (there) growing up … There’s a bias. There is a bias. Let’s just go ahead and admit it. And this committee, I have no earthly idea why they can’t move beyond it, because they’re supposed to be objective … And I feel badly for Miami. They got knocked out last year. They were the last team out, along with Alabama. They did some of it to themselves, but they beat Notre Dame. Shouldn’t head to head matter in college football or in any sporting event? but apparently, to this committee, it does not matter at all.”

Freeman leaves the talking points about Notre Dame to others. He’s kept everything internal to this point and that’s what they’ll continue to do as they end the season with Syracuse and Stanford.

“It gets back to the noise and creating the kind of noise in your mind that it takes to win games, not what somebody on the outside says or thinks or what the system is or isn’t,” Freeman told On3’s Chris Low. “What matters is: Are we doing the things to help us win on Saturdays? We’ll leave the rest to everybody else.”