Was the price to bring back the USC rivalry worth it for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Ryan Roberts breaks down why The USC-Notre Dame rivalry was worth it, but some fans might not like how the fighting irish got it to return
Video Transcript
Overall, I'm excited to have the game back.
I know some fans don't like it, some fans don't care much about these rivalries anymore.
That's totally fine.
It's totally fine.
This is just my opinion, and I know some parts of the fan base will agree with me, some will disagree with me.
For the people that don't agree with me, they're gonna be mostly upset with f- a couple reasons here.
So the Notre Dame rivalry with USC broke down because, of course, when any relationship breaks down or any arrangement breaks down, there's usually two sides of wanting different things.
And for the USC side of things, they wanted, one, the Notre Dame game to be in the beginning of the season.
That was a crux of this whole conversation.
But one of the big hanging points obviously was where that game was gonna be placed on the schedule.
Notre Dame wanted it on the back end like it had been traditionally, obviously, in recent years, and they, for travel purposes and, and potentially jockeying for positioning in college football.
And you understand-- I do understand why USC looks at the game and says, "We being in the Big Ten now and having more travel than we used to," I understand why you would particularly want the Notre Dame game in the front end of the schedule versus the back end.
I understand it.
For p- college football playoff positioning, Big Ten championships, I understand all of those things.
So the game's now gonna be the opening of both of those seasons, game one.
So USC got into their demands, which means that Notre Dame had to bend the knee a little bit.
So USC seemingly, on the surface, got a little bit more of what they wanted in this relationship, in this negotiation, than maybe Notre Dame did
