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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
I don't think Notre Dame has joined a conference yet.
Michigan I care about, but MSU and Purdue are the kind of rivalries old midwesterners care about. Dropping ND would hurt them and their fanbases more than us, in what, the hope that it would be the final straw pushing ND into the league and helping the other 13 teams out? And considering how far schedules are already set up, it would be a dozen years down the road. But I guess if teams are ducking us it would mean we're good again, so I'd take it. I think it's 50% that ND does join the Big 10, but it will be when/because other dominoes are falling, rather than some scheduling hijinks on B10 teams' part (and I feel like if the Big 10 made it clear they were colluding against ND to force them into the conference it could backfire due to the amount of pride (sections of) ND have.)
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Sorry, meant to exclude Notre Dame from that convo. Washington is set to play a 1AA team in the coming schedules