tbf I want more late-breaking scheduling, nice to have two good teams after the '25 season schedule home-and-home for '26-'27, rather than ND sandbagged with a shit Wisconsin team it scheduled a decade ago when they could run the ball.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49530879)

Here is their schedule - I fucking HOPE they get left out of the playoff next year, fuck these frauds. I hope Miami beats the tar out of these entitled fucks.

2026

09/06 - vs Wisconsin (in Green Bay, WI)

09/12 - Rice

09/19 - Michigan State

09/26 - at Purdue

10/03 - at North Carolina

10/31 - vs Navy (in Foxborough, MA)

11/07 - Miami (FL)

11/21 - Boston College

TBA - SMU

TBA - Stanford

TBA - at Syracuse

TBA - vs BYU?? (USC cancelled)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49530911)

akron

western michigan

marshall

mich st.

iowa

at oregon* (a legit game - that they lost)

nebraska

at penn st* (only good win on their regular season)

purdue

northwestern

indiana (they sucked last year)

michigan

tbf though, the big ten is a historically shit conference before the pac came in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531964)

Tbf ND is in complete cuckold land because they get fucked with a shit conference ACC sandbagging them, their "deals" with teams like Wisky a decade ago are now total frauds, so ND is desperate for anything to prop up the schedule.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49530936)

Why would any school schedule these prima donnas?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49530989)

All of these people involved are long dead but the independence has a strong tradition at ND. People like Doodikoff don’t care about tradition though and want everyone to sell out to the Big 2 conferences asap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531016)

"oh join the B1G" "oh ND is playing Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State what a shit schedule" lmao

That said, ND needs to get its fucking shit together and get out of the fucking ACC albatross contract if it wants to have any credibility, because that conference is offering shit game after shit game and it is really fucking pathetic to see ND trot out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531085)

9+3 is the new model. 9 conference games plus 3 shit opponents. nonconference rivalry games are done here. the goal is allow no more than 2 losses a season (that gets you into the playoffs)

ND could still play USC every year. just in the beginning of the year - not the end (they chose not to do this). Or, they could put on the big boy pants and join the big ten.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531957)

How does Doodikoff react? With bashing ND of course!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531003)

For those upthread who are confused, though, the existence of steaming, simmering MAF orange-bearded cowboy-hatted haters like doodikoff Proves to a Certainty the exact opposite point of the one they're trying to make.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531097)

Their schedule is fine and the issue is overblown; they tend to schedule these series (plural; apparently series is the plural of series) with elite teams like 6 years in advance and teams rise and fall in that timeframe. Between now and like 2030, they've got texas, alabama, michigan, and auburn.

Teams colluded against ND on the cfp this year, yes, and they were in the wrong to do so. The main culprit, though, was the preexisting rule about conference champs, as JMU and Tulane were obviously far more egregious than alabama and miami. The real "policy question" raised by this whole snafu is how, and whether, these conference championship games should be valued and allowed to continue (for my money, the SEC championship is often great, whereas the ACC one is usually an embarrassment played in some half-full stadium), as no one's going to participate in them if they know they're going to get dinged by the Committee for a loss in one, so some degree of gay-as-fuck "protection" has to be applied--you can clearly see, if you are not a total hack, how anyone approaching this question with any perspective other than "I want to promote conference championships at all costs" will think this is a faggy as fuck conundrum.

They were fags (IMO) for not playing in a bowl this year, as I always think that's a butthurt move that's disrespectful to the few real student-athlete seniors left in cfb. They also need to fucking work harder and get USC back on the schedule, because a real risk to cfb--that is not ND specific--is the drying up of rivalries in favor of Big10 astroturfing like oregon v. psu.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49533817)

ND is a flash in the pan every 5-10 years and then zilch, coasting on their 1988 Title and outrageous boomer "tv deals" that no one cares about anymore, childishly demanding a spot in the playoffs and someone getting a guaranty as a result, etc.

I can't think of one good thing about the ND program anymore after they bitched out of playing in a bowl game. In fact, I will talk shit about these assholes forever, and relish in every loss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49534017)

This is definitely 100% evil and horrible USC's fault, and ND has done absolutely nothing wrong here whatsoever and is an innocent victim of unfathomable maliciousness and spite simply because they are such a pure and wonderful and amazing institution.

*drools on self*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531292)

https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/2003173450265846169?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813108&forum_id=2",#49531708)