There was a time not all that long ago when Notre Dame was involved in some of the most historic rivalries in college football. However, with the Irish vs USC annual rivalry over and the only remaining annual games being ones that are decidedly one-sided, it feels like those kinds of rivalries won’t be a part of the sport anymore, anywhere.
Count Rich Eisen among those who think the latest trend of all the big games falling by the wayside since the reshuffling of power conferences is bad for fans and bad for college football. He used the end of the Notre Dame vs Michigan series as an example of a bigger program on one of his latest radio appearances.
“And you are like, ‘We shouldn’t want to play Notre Dame.’ I do want a piece of them,” Eisen said on his show. “And you know who should want a piece of them? The entirety of college football should want Michigan and Notre Dame having a piece of each other.”…