The Texas Longhorns and Notre Dame Fighting Irish have been among the two top public enemies for college football fans over the last two weeks.

It's been a wild week for some of college football's top programs, but even with the drama surrounding the Michigan Wolverines it hasn't taken away the attention from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during bowl season.

Notre Dame missed out on the 2025-26 College Football Playoff, as the 10-2 Fighting Irish were jumped by 10-2 Miami in the final rankings. The Fighting Irish are not happy about it. Notre Dame feels like it was snubbed by the College Football Playoff selection committee.

Could Notre Dame football's future schedules be trashed because of its undisclosed College Football Playoff (CFP) agreement?

After being snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame has pulled itself out of the postseason entirely. Hours after being left out of the 12-team playoff, the Fighting Irish announced that “as a team, we’ve decided to withdraw our name from consideration for a bowl game following the 2025 season,” the football team posted on X.

Even as he continued to fume over the Fighting Irish's exclusion Tuesday, Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua pushed back on the notion that Notre Dame had exited the bowl game business.

Despite missing out on the College Football Playoff, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have managed to steal all the headlines this week. Heading into last weekend's conference championship games, Notre Dame was on track to grab the final at-large bid in the CFP.

Now, we are seeing some of the roster fallout that is expected at the end of the season. Notably, backup quarterback Kenny Minchey has announced that he will enter the transfer portal when it opens at the start of the new year.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish added a player from the football team in order to help offset the injury to Markus Burton.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish announced they will skip playing in a bowl game after it was snubbed from the College Football Playoff on Sunday.

That could make the portal an intriguing option at the position for Notre Dame. An extremely interesting tight end option entered this week when Tulsa star Brody Foley announced his intentions to enter when it officially opens on January 2. While Foley will be labeled as a “small school star”, his game is anything but small.