ESPN analyst rips College Football Playoff seeding format amid electric environment seen at Notre Dame-Indiana

December 21, 2024

ESPN’s Peter Burns took an interesting stance while watching the first-round College Football Playoff between Notre Dame and Indiana. Any team that didn’t earn a bye as a conference champion earned an opening-round playoff game.

On Friday night, Burns wrote that he’d like to see a tweak to the College Football Playoff seeding system, which would directly impact those teams with the weekend off.

“Still can’t believe that the Top 4 seeds won’t get an opportunity to host a CFB Playoff Game,” Burns tweeted. “This HAS to be fixed going forward. This home CFB Playoff environment looks amazing!”

Burns wasn’t the only college football media pundit who felt this way, as Action Network’s Brett McMurphy immediately recognized the impact of home playoff games and the difference it makes compared to neutral site games.

“One play in & I can say w/100 [percent] certainty: every freakin’ CFP game should be played on campus – except for the national title game (hold it at Rose Bowl),” McMurphy wrote.

Given that the Notre Dame-Indiana matchup is the first game in the expanded postseason era, both could be right. Burns especially, considering the four conference champions can’t experience the same atmospheres as the Fighting Irish, Penn State, Texas, and Ohio State throughout the weekend.

As for the game, Notre Dame is dominating Indiana. The Hoosiers, led by first-year coach Curt Cignetti, had a head-scratching punt lead to a game-sealing quarterback keeper by Riley Leonard. Leonard scored the Fighting Irish’s 15th rushing touchdown, a school record.

Barring an Indiana colossal miracle, the Fighting Irish will play the SEC champion Georgia Bulldogs in the quarterfinal. Notre Dame leads 27-3 with under five minutes left in regulation.

 

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