College football analyst Josh Pate calls out the College Football Playoff Committee after they released their Week 15 rankings, in which Miami is ranked two spots behind No. 10 Notre Dame, despite clinching the head-to-head victory earlier in the season.
As per the latest rankings, Miami stands to miss the upcoming playoffs, and what once seemed impossible might happen that there will be no ACC school in the College Football Playoff.
Pate argues that since both Miami and Notre Dame are 10-2, the head-to-head results should have prevailed while determining the rankings by the committee.
“If I’ve got a head-to-head result, if the résumés are even remotely comparable, the head-to-head result is going to carry the day,” Pate said. “I don’t think Miami is fully cooked yet. It is merit-based competitive sport. I don’t need you coming to me saying, ‘Oh, well, the head-to-head does matter; it’s just not the only thing that matters.’ It better be times ten mattering over everything else, or else I don’t really know why we’re playing the games, okay?
“So you’re either going to come to me and say Notre Dame’s résumé is unequivocally head-and-shoulders better than Miami — which it’s not — or I’m going to look you in the eye and say, ‘Great, cool. You found fractions of inches on that little piece of paper. I found four and a half hours of game tape, if you want to watch the broadcast copy, that shows you Miami beating Notre Dame.'”
Miami belongs above Notre Dame
And I think they may end up there pic.twitter.com/WxRFvOQG7O
— Josh Pate (@JoshPateCFB) December 3, 2025
Josh Pate Predicts Miami Could Leapfrog Notre Dame In Final Rankings
Josh Pate also talked about the Doomsday scenario if Duke wins the ACC championship game against Virginia.
According to Pate, Miami would want Duke to win that game, actually, because then it would force the committee to rank them higher to have ACC representation in the College Football Playoff and not face the backlash for snubbing an entire Power 4 conference.
“Miami should be the biggest fan of Duke football in the history of mankind right now,” Pate said. “Brigham Young loses, okay? So they’re out of the way. And then it’s just Miami and Notre Dame next to each other. If Duke wins the ACC Championship Game, the aforementioned ACC doomsday scenario goes into effect.
“And so the committee would be left sitting there, having already had the Notre Dame–Miami debate in front of them to begin with, which is egregious on the surface, that Miami doesn’t already get the nod over Notre Dame. Not only will they have that, but they’ll also have this added sledgehammer to their face at the eleventh hour: the idea that we either put Miami in, or there will be no representation from an entire Power Four conference.”
It remains to be seen how the championship week goes and if the CFP committee will be bold enough to snub the entire ACC out of the playoffs.
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