Josh Pate: College football rivalries 'should be more secure than Fort Knox'
Josh Pate celebrates the return of the USC-Notre Dame rivalry game starting in 2030 -- and explains why matchups like this are the bedrock of college football and should never be touched regardless of playoff implications. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
Video Transcript
Usc and Notre Dame is back.
After a brief absence, it won't be played this year or next year or the year after that, but the good news is it's coming back in 2030.
So one of you asked, "How am I supposed to feel about this?
You know, am I supposed to celebrate that it's back, or am I supposed to be mad that I gotta wait till 2030?"
Well, 1000% celebrate that it's back.
I mean, this, this was a historic rivalry that it looked like we were gonna lose, and now we do, we do get it back.
It's in 2030.
You can be mad that it's come to this.
I was.
I know I was.
I view rivalries in the kind of light that I don't even view the playoff in.
I don't even view the concept of the national championship game in the same light.
It's like the pope meme, man.
I'm holding Notre Dame-USC here above and beyond the College Football Playoff logo 'cause I grew up like that.
I was raised like that.
I was raised properly, and so rivalries mean everything to me.
It's the very bedrock and foundation of college football.
Rivalries should be more secure than Fort Knox, and yet we let people touch them, and we let people mess around with them.
And it is my opinion, if I were college football commissioner and everything I just said goes, I wouldn't care who the AD at Notre Dame is or USC is, or the head coach at Notre Dame or USC at any given point in time.
You sign up to be part of Notre Dame, you're signing up to play USC every year.
You sign up to be part of USC, you're signing up to play Notre Dame every year.
Case closed.
And if you don't like that, the answer is not, "Oh, let's, let's rework the schedule."
The answer is, head on down the road and go somewhere else.
Go coach somewhere where you do have full autonomy over the schedule.
But it just so happens that this is ordained, okay?
You don't get to touch this.
It's like the sky is blue, water is wet.
Notre Dame and USC play every year, and if you don't like it, that's a you problem.
And if it, if it messes up your path to the playoff, your head's in the wrong place
