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Next season will be the first ND season without a Big Ten team on the schedule in 99 years. I love it. I have been the biggest anti-Big Ten guy possible for about 50 years. I would like ND to boycott playing Big Ten schools in all sports forever.
Yes, ND took Michigan and Michigan State off the annual schedule but added Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arizona State, Florida State, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and others. (ND will play Michigan State from time to time because they have a great relationship with ND and defied Michigan's attempt to boycott and blackball ND).
ND's future SOS rankings will be just fine.
2014 Football Schedule
ND 48 Rice 17
ND 31 Michigan 0
ND 30 Purdue 14
ND 31 Syracuse 15
ND 17 Stanford 14
ND 50 North Carolina 43
Florida State 31 ND 27
ND 49 Navy 39
Arizona State 55 ND 31
Northwestern 43 ND 40 (OT)
Louisville 31 ND 28
Southern Cal 49 ND 14
ND 31 LSU 28
2015 Football Schedule
S05 TEXAS
S12 @ Virginia
S19 GEORGIA TECH
S26 UMASS
O03 @ Clemson
O10 NAVY
O17 SOUTHERN CAL
O31 @ Temple (LFSF)
N07 @ Pittsburgh
N14 WAKE FOREST
N21 BOSTON COLLEGE (Fenway Pk.)
N28 @ Stanford
2016 Football Schedule
S03 @ Texas
S10 NEVADA
S17 MICHIGAN STATE
S24 DUKE
O01 @ Syracuse (Meadowlands)
O08 @ North Carolina State
O15 STANFORD
O29 MIAMI
N05 @ Navy
N12 ARMY (Alamodome)
N19 VIRGINIA TECH
N26 @ Southern Cal
2017 Football Schedule
not official
S09 GEORGIA
S16 @ Boston College
S30 MIAMI(OH)
O07 @ North Carolina
O28 NORTH CAROLINA STATE
N04 WAKE FOREST
N11 @ Miami(FL)
N25 @ Stanford
TEMPLE
NAVY
SOUTHERN CAL
@ Michigan State
2018 Football Schedule
not official
S22 SYRACUSE
O13 @ Virginia Tech
O20 PITTSBURGH
N10 FLORIDA STATE
N17 @ Wake Forest
N24 @ Southern Cal
STANFORD
@ Navy
4 games TBD
2019 Football Schedule
not official
S02 @ Louisville
S19 @ Georgia
S28 VIRGINIA
O19 @ Georgia Tech
N02 VIRGINIA TECH
N09 @ Duke
N23 BOSTON COLLEGE
N30 @ Stanford
NAVY
SOUTHERN CAL
2 games TBD
2020 Football Schedule
not officia
N28 @ Southern Cal
STANFORD
DUKE
CLEMSON
LOUISVILLE
@ Purdue
@ Navy
@ Wake Forest
@ Pittsburgh
2021 Football Schedule
not official
S06 @ Florida State
N27 @ Stanford
PURDUE
NAVY
SOUTHERN CAL
NORTH CAROLINA
GEORGIA TECH
@ Virginia Tech
@ Virginia
2022 Football Schedule
not official
N26 @ Southern Cal
STANFORD
BOSTON COLLEGE
CLEMSON
@ Navy
@ Ohio State
@ North Carolina
@ Syracuse
2023 Football Schedule
not official
N25 @ Stanford
NAVY
SOUTHERN CAL
OHIO STATE
WAKE FOREST
PITTSBURGH
@ North Carolina State
@ Duke
@ Louisville
@ Clemson
2024 Football Schedule
not official
A31 @ Texas A&M
MIAMI(FL)
FLORIDA STATE
VIRGINIA
STANFORD
@ Navy
@ Southern Cal
@ Georgia Tech
2025 Football Schedule
not official
S27 TEXAS A&M
NAVY
SOUTHERN CAL
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
SYRACUSE
@ Stanford
@ Miami(FL)
@ Boston College
@ Pittsburgh
The proposed "stability" of a conference schedule is a red herring. It has little relevance to ND football.
Bottom line: you're a Midwest school in South Bend - Rust Belt central - your pretentious national reputation is overrated. Your school's history has in fact been shaped, dramatically, by Midwestern Catholicism - don't try to debate me here.
Schools like Neb and OSU recruit almost as far and wide as you - other schools as well. OSU, and likely Michigan in the future, will have as much pull as ND on the national recruiting stage. OSU is already on par with ND in this department while being able to lean on Ohio with first pickings. You've been lapped by Ohio State in terms of the best football program in the Midwest & it's been this way for more than 20 years & OSU has done it as a conference member in the so-called weak BIG. You still have a losing record against Michigan. Your BCS record speaks for itself - awful and unprecedented in terms of blue bloods. You lost to NW this past season - enough. Good Lord! ND has had some awful seasons since Holtz has left - awful. But I love your women's basketball program.
My ultimate issue with ND still remains: independent status in a sport where fairness is required to establish legitimate playoff = unfair & problematic. As I said, no sane professional league in the US allows for some independent franchise to tailor their schedules.
The playoff committee will likely bypass ND if 4 of the P5 conferences have undefeated teams & the ACC doesn't step up outside of FSU. But I make no guarantees.
Anyways, back to a more important wish - UConn to the BIG - would love to see it.