re: How come SEC teams don't play Notre Dame more often?

SEC schools should not appear to be begging or asking ND to play them. ND has their numbers.

It's just hard to any team to get into ND's schedule though when you consider they have traditional rivalry games against Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, USC, and the service academies. Most years 5-6 of their games are traditional rivalry games. Plus they play Pitt and Boston College with some regularity. And every school wants to play ND. So in some years 8 games are allready set and the other 4 games go to the highest bidders who can offer money, prestige, and neutral sites.