ND - Ohio State agree to home and home
Notre Dame & Ohio State have agreed to a home-and home (via @NDFootball). - Columbus - 2022 - South Bend - 2023
September 4th, 2014 at 10:59 AM ^
Eh. We have to expand the base into the Great White North and the land of Nik Stauskas. Tulsa is the perfect opponent, you know, with all those Roughrider teams up there.
September 4th, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
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September 4th, 2014 at 3:35 PM ^
Would attend. Love London. Hopefully United will be playing Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham, Cheslea, Fulham (holy crap how many London teams are in the EPL?????) so I could watch both games.
Yes I know your post is dripping with sarcasm.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
Wasnt there a forecast for a large meteor to strike Columbus in 2022?
Cuz' no fucks would be given if so.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
Seriously, let's just kick their ass and be done with them.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:22 AM ^
I know we are all making it sound like this is a screw-you to UM, but this is two games that are almost 10 years away. What about the next 8 years? It's not like they are simply replacing UM yearly with OSU. This is 2 games over the course of a decade. I think the two are mutually exclusive.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
It's not the games, it's the timing of the announcement.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:45 AM ^
What I find funny is that ND claimed to drop Michigan to play a "more national" schedule. Yet they go and schedule Northwestern and Ohio State. Truly, I think the B1G as a whole should stop playing ND. All ND does is rip on the big ten for being a regional, mediocre conference, but then goes and schedules half their games against them, all the whole refusing to join. The two should just part ways already.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:07 AM ^
their excuse for ending the rivalry series makes no sense in light of their replacement scheduling, even if it's only two games.
I mean when has Michigan-Notre Dame not been a national game of interest. Hmmmmm, let's see, maybe never. The point is, they don't have one.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^
I suppose the timing of the announcement was just a coincidence as well? Michigan will be fired up due to the patsy asses backing out of the series, as well as the timing of this. Fuck Notre Dame. Seriously. And I don't typically swear on these boards, as there are better ways to convey an opinion. But fuck em.
So glad that the chicken dance song came on after we ripped out their souls last year.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
When the games will be played. It's the timing of the announcement of when the games will be played.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:23 AM ^
Scary fact of the day - if OSU was not sanctioned this would have been the NC game in 2012 while Bama sat at home going WTF.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:24 AM ^
That they are doing the Chicken Dance. Let's lay a beating on them to remind them why they backed out of this one. Go Blue!
September 4th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
Hope they both lose
September 4th, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
1. Michigan and ND will meet in a Bowl Game before this series occurs.
2. Screw you ND!
September 4th, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
They drop their series with us, curtail severely their series with MSU, then schedule a home-and-home with Ohio State all while keeping Purdue on the schedule several times in the next ten years or so. It doesn't get much more Notre Dame than that, folks, to keep one of their coastal rivals on the banks of the Wabash.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
Gotta keep that Big 10 schedule without actually joining the conference, after all.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
just to troll us.
I would love for Saturday to be a Benny Hill game.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
Yeah. I think the people moaning about the "timing" need to get a grip; not everything ND does has to do with Michigan. The fact of the games and ND's overall schedule is interesting, though. It pretty clearly shows that they are not interested in playing games against "traditional rivals" unless they think that those games serve an ulterior ND purpose.
ND cannot:
(1) claim to value tradition;
(2) cancel the UM-ND series, and
(3) then schedule OSU without even talking to Michigan about reviving their series
all with a straight face.
The last fig leaf of them not running away from the Michigan game has fallen.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
What are the odds after the next OSU 4 loss season and Urban's "health issues" that will immediately spring up, he is coaching Notre Dame for this game? No seriously it could be over 25%.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:28 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:31 AM ^
I hope OSU gives them herpes.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^
Nah, ND knows how to be careful. They play MSU a lot.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
on eve of last game in this series. Wouldn't expect anything less from school that backs out of contract (which they could per terms of contract) when they had played one extra home game.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:37 AM ^
I have the same general feeling about this news and timing of the announcement that I had back in 2008 when my ex-wife remarried a dude she was working with a mere 45 days after our divorce was final.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:53 AM ^
I think this explains why you have a big boat and a young trophy wife... makes sense now.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:16 AM ^
The irony of it is that my ex dumped ME. While I was recupurating from cancer surgery I might add. And then she got divorced AGAIN from that guy less than two years. Hell I didnt even meet Jill until a year after we split up.
September 4th, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
Karma's a bitch. Something tells me you're a pretty good man, in addition to being lucky.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:02 AM ^
We got divorced in the same year, and my ex was dating her coworker/boss at the time. however, he came to his senses and dumped her right around the time our divorce was final. Major meltdown, evidently.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:37 AM ^
How great would it be for Pat Haden to hand Notre Dame a cancellation of series notice five minutes before kickoff this season. I would be joyful, no doubt about it. Then Notre Dame could continue on their national schedule tour with the San Jose State's and Rice's of the world.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:38 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
will Urban be coaching when these games happen?
September 4th, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
Only of regional interest. Will not watch, even if I live in the same region.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
ND just announced a series with our most hated rival two days before the end of our series. I expect nothing less from those hypocritical, low-class turds.
Good. Let someone else carry their ass from now on.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^
Hope it ends in a tie.
September 4th, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
September 4th, 2014 at 10:48 AM ^
At least SOMEONE has to lose... I guess?!?
September 4th, 2014 at 10:48 AM ^
I only care about the great historical significance of Notre Dame playing North Carolina State.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Wake Forest-ND matchup or the Irish vs the Dukies.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Wake Forest-ND matchup or the Irish vs the Dukies.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
ND gets to play the martyr and lose against a semi-pro team. As said upstream, they can't do that when they lose to UM. And if they manage a win at home, wake up the echoes and that bullshit. This makes perfect sense.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:58 AM ^
They say it is bad to hate, but idgaf. I fucking hate notre dame so damn much. I have lived my whole life only a few miles away from south bend. It sucks. Fuck them bastards.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:08 AM ^
Domer fans are going to APPALLED by their first trip to Columbus.
"And I thought those BRUTES from USC were bad!"
September 4th, 2014 at 11:27 AM ^
did a home and home in the mid-90's. I think OSU won both games.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:58 AM ^
Forgot about that...1995 Ohio won (Ohio was #6, ND #14) 45-26 in Columbus and in '96 they won 29-16 in Indiana (Ohio #4, ND #5).