Penn State Pitt etc. Please bring them back in late August and let every school play! Please end the Opt Out Bowls and expand the playoff. Please end the Conference Championship play out games and let Army Navy play that weekend instead. My Dad used to say to my brothers and I after we made a lame excuse for doing something dumb. You know, nobody can be that dumb!!! I refuse to believe that you are that dumb!!! Please stop acting like it! So my answer to the people in charge of all of this, I really can't believe you are that dumb, so can you please stop acting like it. :-)

If fans want the stupidity to stop, they have to stop rewarding the decision makers for making terrible decisions.

And South Bend, for that matter. Notre Dame can always persuade Navy to play on the west coast.

I may get the financial case for ND remaining independent but the emotional/traditional case for being so seems pretty diminished to me. I guess there is still the calculation that they have a better path to a now extended playoff - but this year proved it can work both ways. And although I get that full ACC football is not attractive to most ND fans, I'd suspect full B1G football schedule would on average be ultimately preferable to the type of schedule being generated at present. I have to think the resistance to a (non-acc) conference membership is lessening over time, despite the declarations from the AD and some ND super fans.

It's just that the yearly tradition is now five or so games in the ACC.

We play in California, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts next year.

USC needs wins to help boost their program back up. And they were not getting them against ND. Every team out for themselves.

USC backed out at the last minute.