Tying Notre Dame’s exclusion to DEI is specious reasoning. It’s about the makeup and design of the CFP and the fact that the committee was wildly inconsistent and unduly influenced (i.e. BYU loss disqualifying, but Alabama’s was not. Head to head not being considered at all until yesterday, ACC and ESPN running an influence campaign with showing our game against Miami). It is just more garbage ND doesn’t need and Whitlock isn’t adding anything of value to the debate.