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Not when September has become the only month we can reliably bring serious juice to the schedules. And adding a really crappy Wisconsin to the '26 slate (thanks to pandemic rejiggering) doesn't help. B1G fans will be clowning us for our schedule when we're just playing the same shitty teams they get pats on the back for waging war against all goddamn fall.

Loved the Boilermaker Pete + Sparty forbidden love subplot. More graphic than I expected.

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Both in the same year is kinda junky at this point.

Same as BC, Pitt & Cuse in the same year.

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But Purdue and MSU (and probably Pitt and BC) always feel familiar and comfortable on ND’s schedule, like a bowl of soup at Cracker Barrel. We’re always going to have room for these staples.

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I’d like to avoid those forums.

the freedom ND has relative to others on scheduling. Pit these fuckers against one another -- rivals, conferences, whatever. You don't want to play us? Fine, we'll find someone else who does by the end of the day and make you look bad in the process.

It's just terrible. All opponents (save the recent additions) are similarly worthy of being bounced, at any cost.

Maybe this is in anticipation of Texas nixing the '28-'29 series, so you might assume it could slide into that spot in 2028.

But for 2027 it's pretty tricky. We currently have 5 ACC games, plus @ Stanford, which I believe is outside of the ACC agreement (but if not, maybe the VT or GT games slide a year... would the ACC work with us on that?). Obviously can't move the Clemson game, since it's the first of our 12-year agreement. I don't think you want to move the game against Wake since they secured an NFL stadium.

Can't lose Auburn. We signed BYU specifically to stick it to USC, so that needs to stay. Navy is its own thing. We already publicly committed to the Kent State game and publicized it as a tribute to Holtz, but maybe you could kick that down the road a year or two without anyone getting upset? I know Purdue and MSU don't get people here excited, but we signed contracts.

2027
09/04 - Purdue
09/18 - at Michigan State
09/25 - Auburn
10/02 - Kent State
10/09 - vs Wake Forest (in Charlotte, NC)
10/30 - at Clemson
11/06 - Virginia Tech
11/20 - Navy
11/27 - at Stanford
TBA - BYU
TBA - Georgia Tech
TBA - at Duke

2028
09/09 - Texas
09/16 - Arkansas
09/23 - at Purdue
10/07 - Clemson
10/14 - Stanford
10/28 - at Auburn
11/04 - at Virginia Tech
11/18 - at Navy
TBA - Boston College
TBA - Miami (FL)
TBA - at Pitt

on their future schedule.

One week later ND leaks a Tech series that increases TT state visibility and makes UT recruiting harder.

I doubt UT saw a ND/Tech game in their outcomes.

This is the type of public shaming we've all been jonesing for these long months. Would be great if the Athletic Department had the balls to start doing that.

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...and almost 100% guarantee that they leaked USC as another potential opponent, knowing they wouldn't do it, so ND could drag them even more for not wanting to schedule ND.

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