Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part III
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We're rolling here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fanduel. |
| 0:23.1 | It's the Friday Free For All Mailbag, and we've answered some really, really great questions so far today. |
| 0:28.1 | You guys are bringing the heat, no doubt about it. |
| 0:31.1 | Got one from acupuncture. |
| 0:33.1 | Do you think college football should go to a 10-game season if they implement a 2014 playoff? |
| 0:37.0 | It would put weight back into the regular season, just as college football should go to a 10-game season if they implement a 2014 playoff. It would put weight back into the regular season just as college football should be. |
| 0:41.7 | No. Well, whether they should do that or not is really irrelevant. They're not giving up to home. |
| 0:47.9 | They're not giving up to regular season games for a 2014 playoff. It's just not going to happen. |
| 0:54.1 | They're going to give up the conference championship game for that, but they're not. |
| 0:57.6 | My point, I said that recently, okay, fine, you want to go to a 24 to 32 team |
| 1:02.8 | play off and play the same number of games that FCS, D2, and D3 teams play, which is 10. |
| 1:09.0 | FCS teams play, I think, 10 or 11. |
| 1:10.7 | They play 11 now, but D2 and D3 teams play, which is 10. FCS teams play, I think 10 or 11. They play 11 now. |
| 1:29.0 | But D2 and D3, they play 10. High school teams that play 14, you know, four or five rounds of playoffs. They play 10 high school, you know, regular season games. So, but they're not going to do that. Because, again, what's driving all of this? Money. and they're not going to give up revenue from games, |
| 1:31.8 | those kind of games to go do this. |
| 1:35.3 | Why is there such a pushback against giving up the conference championship games? |
| 1:36.7 | Seems like a no-brainer, right? |
| 1:38.8 | Coaches don't want it. |
| 1:39.9 | Players don't want it. |
| 1:41.8 | So why do they still play it? |
| 1:44.0 | Money. They make lots of money. That play it? Money. |
| 1:45.9 | They make lots of money. |
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