Overview
- - Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark blasted Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua’s response as egregious and defended the committee’s use of head‑to‑head once Miami and Notre Dame were adjacent.
- - Phillips called for immediate expansion, a relook at the weekly CFP ranking shows, and tweaks to tiebreaker protocols after commissioners met in Las Vegas without a format agreement before the Jan. 23 decision window.
- - Media reporting reiterates the committee’s final flip to Miami hinged on the Week 1 head‑to‑head after BYU’s title‑game loss removed the buffer between the teams.
- - Notre Dame remains the first team out, has declined bowl invitations, and Bevacqua alleges the ACC damaged the relationship, which the league disputed while calling Notre Dame a valued member.
- - Public reaction escalated as ESPN’s Paul Finebaum castigated Notre Dame’s stance and the committee, and Notre Dame’s campus bookstore briefly canceled then reinstated a signing by CFP committee member Ivan Maisel.