Finebaum Dubs Fighting Irish “Petulant and Small”
Paul Finebaum, notorious SEC devotee, launched into a diatribe against the Notre Dame football program after the Irish declined a Pop-Tarts Bowl invite following a near-miss College Football Playoff run. Claiming the Fighting Irish are “forgotten” outside the South, Finebaum painted them as a petulant, diminutive holdout lost amid the Big Ten’s meteoric rise. Despite Notre Dame’s 2024 playoff wins over Indiana, Georgia, and Penn State en route to a national championship game appearance, Finebaum insisted the SEC still holds the upper hand and that Notre Dame is being left behind by modern college football’s power realignments. His remarks reeked of his long-standing SEC bias and a lack of appreciation for Notre Dame’s recent postseason success.
Oh, Paul, bless your heart for rediscovering your microphone to gripe about Notre Dame—again. It’s almost adorable how the SEC’s self-appointed spokesperson can’t seem to process that the Fighting Irish actually won playoff games recently. Perhaps Finebaum needs a Pop-Tarts box map to locate South Bend on a college-football geography chart? Or maybe he’s just jealous that his beloved conference didn’t get a single ring when Notre Dame crashed the party. Keep sipping that SEC Kool-Aid, Paul; your commentary remains the perfect soundtrack to every SEC meltdown when a non-Southern school finds its way into the spotlight.
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