Notre Dame social media reacts to the new CFP rankings after Week 13

Notre Dame football found out its College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday night, and they remained at No. 9, the same spot they were in the week before.

This shouldn’t come as a big surprise, as there wasn’t much movement at all with the top teams following Week 13 in college football. The Irish need some help to continue to rise in the rankings, but it does look like they will make the field of twelve.

There wasn’t as much angst about Notre Dame’s ranking this week than last, but we learned plenty and here are the best reactions on social media.

Notre Dame stays put in College Football Playoff rankings at No. 9

The Irish didn’t move in either of the major polls, and didn’t move in the CFP’s rankings. They’ll need some of the teams above them to lose this weekend, and then we’ll see how it shakes out before conference championship week.

Where Notre Dame would be in the BCS

This is becoming one of my favorite measuring sticks, as it blends a human committee with a computerized one. The top-four teams are the same, but that’s where it gets interesting. They do have Notre Dame at No. 9, which at this point is a very fair ranking.

Miami won’t be complicating things for Notre Dame

The Hurricanes moved into the top-12, but are behind the Irish who they beat in the season opener. It was a big question about how the committee would view both teams if they were in the same tier, and we now know the answer.

Does Alabama have an argument to be ahead of Notre Dame?

While any SEC team thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else, they got a hard reality check on Tuesday night. The executive director, Rich Clark, pretty much shot down the idea of the Crimson Tide jumping the Irish.

Notre Dame at Oklahoma early odds

Right now it’s a toss-up between the Irish and the Sooners, and you’d have to think that if it was a neutral site, the advantage would go to Notre Dame. If this is the matchup, I could see the home team, Oklahoma, being underdogs.

The Syracuse outcome was beneficial for Notre Dame

When you score 35-points in a quarter without your offense taking part in three of those touchdowns, it’s going to be an impressive night. Notre Dame would score five more times, blowing out Syracuse 70-7, and I don’t really think that Freeman violated an “unwritten” rule. He and the Orange’s head coach Fran Brown are friends, and there were not hard feelings following the game. Even with that, the huge win surely helped the Irish.

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