Dame Blue-Gold Spring Football Game on Apat Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, IN. SOUTH BEND, IN - APRIL 23: Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick looks on during the Notre. Notre Dame will get $15 million per year through 2025 from the NBC contract it originally signed before the 1991 season. As a result, each of the conference’s 16 teams were projected to receive between $80 million and $100 million per season. Fox, CBS and NBC followed by completing a seven-year contract with the Big Ten worth $7 billion. Southern Cal and UCLA announced this summer they were bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten to continue the rise of super conferences. Prior to that, the possibility of Notre Dame joining a conference for the first time ever threatened to go from rumor to fact. Their independent status was signed, sealed and delivered Friday for generations by the tripling of teams in college football’s playoff system. Here’s the better news: No matter what happens Saturday night on national television in Columbus, Ohio, the Irish already have won this weekend. There also are those lines in the 114-year-old Notre Dame Victory March, which have been prophetic through the decades: What though the odds be great or small. Here’s the good news: Ohio State is cocky.Īs legendary Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps used to say, the Irish are the most dangerous underdogs in sports history. Stroud) announced on social media this week that he was using some of his NIL (Names, Images and Likeness) money to give each of his teammates $500 gift cards to purchase new suits for the Notre Dame game. With oddsmakers favoring the Buckeyes over Notre Dame by two touchdowns and a field goal, their Heisman Trophy candidate at quarterback (C.J. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images) Getty ImagesĮven though Notre Dame isn’t “Ohio State” loaded, Notre Dame is loaded, with a bruising offensive line, versatile running backs possessing the ability to sprint and to catch, all-everything tight end Michael Mayer and enough gifted defenders to keep folks out of the end zone more often than not. touchdown past Kolby Harvell-Peel #31 of the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the second quarter during the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl at State Farm Stadium on Januin Glendale, Arizona. This would be comparable to what the Big East was in basketball after everyone left about a decade ago - just worse.GLENDALE, ARIZONA - JANUARY 01: Michael Mayer #87 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish dives to score a. Yeah, Notre Dame brings value on that front and Stanford and Cal historically are better than Duke and Northwestern (usually), but they’re not exactly powerhouses, either. What it would also provide is brutal football compared to the actual power conferences that exist. For good measure why not invite Northwestern, Duke and Vanderbilt, too, right? You do this, Andy, and it’s a death certificate for Notre Dame going forward.

And - this is the part that should appeal to the people in charge in South Bend - it would bundle six of the nation’s most selective academic institutions into one unit.” It would include the other games that decide the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy. It would include the Army-Navy game, which is a massive television property. “This would put historic rivalries Notre Dame-Stanford and Notre Dame-Navy under the same umbrella.

Staples proposed conference would be Notre Dame, Cal, Stanford, Army, Navy, and Air Force.

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