re: Notre Dame Athletics Director: "We want to play SEC schools"

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It actually spawned from the 1969 season. LSU had maybe its best team under Cholly Mac and ND basically stole a Cotton Bowl bid from the Tigers.

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One of those sports almanacs listed LSU's '69 team as the best team ever to not go to a bowl...of course technically they did get a bowl bid--it's just that it was withdrawn when ND lifted their self-imposed bowl ban and suddenly became available to the Cotton.