The Tailgate: No. 3 Notre Dame

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November 13, 2026 | Football, #ForBoston Files

Eagles head to South Bend for first time since 2022

Those who grew up watching college football in the 1990s remember a period when the sports television landscape dramatically changed. The College Football Association, which previously negotiated television contracts on behalf of the major conferences and several independent programs, watched as Notre Dame broke away to secure its own broadcast agreement with NBC. By the end of the decade, the alliance that once sought to unify college football's television interests had officially dissolved. In the years that followed, conferences increasingly charted their own paths by…