Luck(less) of the Irish

 OK, so maybe God did not make Notre Dame No.1.  Or No. 4, for that matter.

No, Georgia likely kept the Irish out of the College Football Playoff yesterday, whizzing down its leg again in the SEC title game against -- hey, what a surprise! -- Alabama. Same-old, same-old, in other words. Kirby Smart looks across the way, sees Nick Saban and starts screaming like Jamie Lee Curtis being chased by Michael Myers.

The final was 'Bama 41, Georgia 24, and that means the Crimson Tide is in, and probably the No. 1 seed. And it means Georgia is probably still in because they're 12-1, too.

Meanwhile, Michigan and Cincinnati took care of business to (probably) lock up the other two spots. So the Irish will likely finish fifth in a four-horse race.

Or ...

Or, who knows. The CFP has done some wacky things before, so maybe they decide Notre Dame is Notre Dame and Cincinnati is Cincinnati, and, well ... well, it's a bidness, as the Blob has noted many times before. The only thing keeping it from happening is the fact Cincy handed the Irish their only loss, which would make kicking an undefeated non-Power 5 school in its tender parts too egregious even for college football.

Domers would probably say a better case would be dropping Georgia to No. 5 and inserting Notre Dame ahead of the Bulldogs, but that's unlikely to happen, too. They love them some SEC, the folks who make these decisions. Even when one of them gets exposed as, well, kind of a fraud

So, sorry about that, Irish. Georgia screwed you and Michigan screwed you by toying with Iowa like a kitten with a ball of string in the Big Ten championship game. Better luck next time.

When, perhaps, trying on a southern accent would help. Like, you know, that one guy.

What's his name again?