Week 10 Anger Index: Welcome to the sequel, Notre Dame - ESPN

There's a belief in certain circles of the college football world that the powers that be are close to delivering a fatal blow to the Anger Industrial Complex.

During the days of the BCS, anger was everywhere. How could a computer tell us who deserved a shot at a national championship? Of course, after this first set of rankings, Notre Dame (No. 1 in FPI, No. 3 in SP+) would probably be happy with a «Terminator»-like AI takeover if it means getting a fair shake for the playoff.

The four-team playoff helped settle some of the most emotional outrage, but from the beginning (when Baylor and TCU were left on the cutting room floor) to the end (when 13-0 Florida State was snubbed because of a QB injury), there was still plenty of frustration, hostility and debate.

The advent of the 12-team playoff figured to settle things even more. After all, how many years were there even half a dozen teams worthy of playoff inclusion? Surely handing an invite to 12 schools would settle any need for finger-pointing. And then, of course, last year we saw the committee reverse engineer its way into being permanently deleted from Notre Dame's Christmas card list.

So now, here we are, on the brink of doubling the field yet again — from 12 to 24. No more snubs. No more deserving teams left out. No more bitterness and hand-wringing and «what might have been» soliloquies. No more anger.

Yeah right.

Anyone who thinks that opening the doors to a once-elite society and ushering in hordes of normies will somehow reduce hostility, frustration and resentment has never been to the Admirals Club at CLT.

No, anger is like a virus. It flourishes through exposure. When just four teams could make the playoff, only a handful of others ever came down with a