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Duke still stinging from not getting selected to College Football Playoff after winning ACC title
Diaz says the Blue Devils earned the playoff after winning the ACC title, while the league has changed its tiebreaker format.
- At the ACC Kickoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, Duke head coach Manny Diaz argued the Blue Devils deserved a College Football Playoff berth after winning the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference championship.
- Duke became the only Power Four champion to miss the 12-team playoff last season, despite defeating Virginia 27-20 in overtime to secure the ACC title in December 2025.
- Diaz insisted the Blue Devils "absolutely deserved to be there" due to their six conference wins, criticizing tiebreaker methods as "a fashion show or a beauty pageant."
- SMU coach Rhett Lashlee supported the Blue Devils, stating they "should have been in instead of a team from the Sun Belt" and the conference should have been a two-bid league.
- ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips announced the league is adopting a new tiebreaker format using the SportSource Analytics metric, which would have placed Miami in the 2025 title game over Duke.
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Duke still stinging from not getting selected to College Football Playoff after winning ACC title
SMU coach Rhett Lashlee congratulated Duke on winning the 2025 ACC championship and believes they should have made the College Football Playoff over Sun Belt champion James Madison.
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