re: Notre Dame will get in but it will be the watershed to them not playing the 13th game

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The last two weeks Notre Dame has to play a ranked team in nyc

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That is like Duke playing in NYC in basketball, it is a virtual home game for them. The #1 section of the Irish fan base is in the east coast corridor (MA, PA, NY, and DC) and not in the midwest where ND is located. As for a "ranked" team, the Cuse went 9-3 with a schedule of kittens and puppies outside of Clemson and Notre Dame. Granted part is not their fault as normally Louisville and Florida State would not be teams under .500

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then fly out out and play usc in LA

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Yeah normally this would be a game, but this year the Trojans won like 5 games? Besides, it is a rivalry game like many between the ACC and SEC and nobody gives those schools credit for playing those non conference rival games.

ACC and SEC have 4 annual rival games and another 4 that are near annual rivals
PAC has none
B1G and B12 have only Iowa vs Iowa State (teams not in the NC hunt every year)

It is easy for the B1G, B12, and PAC to scream about 8 vs 9 conference games because it makes them look like they have a valid point when they do not. B1G has lots on MAC games, B12 has lots of CUSA games, and PAC has lots of MWC games. None of those are P5 conferences like the P5 cross rivals between the ACC and SEC.

If the Irish joined the ACC and kept the USC game the PAC would have its only P5 cross conference game. Have them do that 7 more times and they would be more like the ACC and SEC.