ESPN predicts the College Football Playoff top-12. Where do they have Notre Dame?

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Tonight is the night when Notre Dame find out what the College Football Playoff committee thinks of them, as it should be one of the top-12 teams when the rankings.

The Irish took two early losses, but have rebounded in an impressive way, winning their last six games. They’ve risen back up the US LBM Coaches Poll to the No. 10 team, and many believe that they’re one of the best twelve teams right now including ESPN.

They recently dropped the team who they think are in right now, and interesting enough, they also have Notre Dame as the No. 10 seed according to Heather Dinich and Bill Connelly. For Dinich, the biggest question is how the committee will judge the Miami game, one where the Irish fell just 3-points. The two teams are headed in different directions now, as the Irish have turned it around and the Hurricanes have lost two of their last three games.

If you were to put them back on the field again right now, most likely Notre Dame would be the favorite. The look test is alway tricky, but the resume isn’t. Miami lost to two unranked teams, the Irish’s other loss being to most likely top-3 Texas A&M.

Connelly puts Notre Dame into his third-tier, as he named it the “transition” teams. They are at the top of the group, but the playoff odds that are given to the final team in the second-tier is over 10-percent. He didn’t go into much details as to why he put them there, but in Connelly’s eyes, there’s a big gap between tiers.

We’ll all find out later tonight where Notre Dame actually is in the first playoff rankings of the 2025 season, and which teams they’ll be fighting for higher seeds or fending off from jumping them.

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This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: Is Notre Dame in ESPN’s top-12 College Football Playoff prediction?

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