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Notre Dame is playing the wrong Big 10 school this season

Not long ago, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish schedule had a very strong presence of Big 10 teams on its schedule each year — specifically in the first month of the season. The Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, and the Purdue Boilermakers were there almost every single year; and even then the Irish have played a fourth from time to time.

It was all very midwesterny.

That all changed when the Irish made their deal with the ACC to play 5 games every year. The annual Big 10 opponents were pushed to the side as random future games, and it changed the way we have watched the Irish since 2014.