Games Would Suffer if ND Went Conference

To be in a conference or not to be in a conference. That is the question that perplexes Notre Dame football fans and will persist until the end of time. But what would life be like in a conference. For one thing, you’d get some pretty pathetic non-conference matchups. Pat Forde of ESPN writes that nowadays big conference football powers act like sissies when they’re forced to go out-of-conference to play games. Would you want that, Notre Dame fans?

Sure, playing the weaklings of the college football world is fun, economical, and you can run up stats and wins with little effort. But that’s cheap. Most Notre Dame purists prefer all of the tradition and rivalry- even when it means that Notre Dame has to play schools like USC and Michigan. In fact, looking at the 2009 Notre Dame schedule, the list of teams playing the Domers looks impressive compared to the Alabamas and Floridas of the world. Here’s the Notre Dame schedule by conference.

  • WAC
  • Big Ten
  • Big Ten
  • Big Ten
  • Pac-10
  • Pac-10
  • ACC
  • Pac-10
  • Independent
  • Big East
  • Big East
  • Pac-10

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