Notre Dame Much More Likeable Nowadays

Notre Dame is a much more likable program, now that they aren’t constantly winning bowl games and national championships. Well, that might or might not actually be true, but that’s basically the message that Mark Schalbach portrays in his column at ESPN. In “College Football Fans Love To Hate” the Irish come up quite a bit, but not for the reasons that you might think. Sure, the Michigan Wolverines and USC Trojans are supposed to hate Notre Dame (and they still do, of course), but it’s hard to sustain that kind of rivalry when Notre Dame has a bad season. As you are well aware, the Irish were 3-9 last year, and they didn’t put up much of a fight against either of their two biggest rivals. So how can you build a good feud when there isn’t competitiveness?

That’s not to say that the state of Notre Dame football can’t change in a hurry. In fact, if Notre Dame beats Michigan and/or USC next season (and they have a better chance of doing so than you might think) the rivalry will get a real jump start, and Notre Dame will be making columns like this for the old reasons that they used to- because they’re all just jealous.

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