Quote Originally Posted by lawhokie View Post
I don't think UVa is better than BYU, and BYU is a bigger game for Notre Dame than UVa. BYU also fits into Notre Dame's national scheduling policy. All this noise about Notre Dame being an east coast school is not convincing to me. Notre Dame usually plays games spread out all over the country to maintain its national presence. If they agree to nine ACC games, they'll also probably play Navy, MSU and Stanford. That's it for them unless the drop a rivalry game.

If the ACC wants Notre Dame, I think they'll have to agree on 8 or fewer games, or maybe 6 or 7. I say go ahead and do it.
they won't drop Navy, but they also won't drop USC-w. that game is a much bigger game for them than Stanford. so IF they ever committed to a 9 game schedule, they would likely only have to rotate 1 OOC game, and it would rotate between Purdue, Michigan, Michigan St and Stanford, so they would play them all home and home once every 8 years. i think getting ND would mean a move back to 8 league games with the focus being on division schedules, so they could actually play 2 of those 4 every year and shorten the rotation to 4 years OR keep the 8 year rotation and leave an OOC spot open for random games vs teams like Texas or Nebraska or even add in some MAC games to keep the schedule light.