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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the USC booster is for USC or just a downright ND hater. Maybe both!
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Whoever it is, he just doesn’t get it.  Notre Dame plays Navy every year because Navy want the game and Notre Dame is grateful to Navy for basically keeping the school open during WWII.  And Notre Dame plays Stanford as much as it can because it helps recruiting on the West Coast and because it values Stanford academics.
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….and 2 guaranteed wins most years.  ND did back out of the Michigan rivalry. You know why?  They lost more than they won.  ND values Stanford academics.  Please. If Stanford started winning consistently against them, they would be axed just like they did to Michigan.  Notre Dame can’t have too many losses and still stay independent.  It’s all about the $$$ [/quote]

Notre Dame ended it due to scheduling constraints after they agreed to play ACC teams. See below:

The most recent end to the rivalry stemmed from Notre Dame's conference affiliation changes and scheduling constraints. In September 2012, Notre Dame announced that it would move all sports except football from the Big East Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). As part of this deal, Notre Dame's football team committed to playing at least five ACC opponents each season to maintain ties with the conference. This required a major overhaul of their non-conference schedule.

To accommodate the ACC games while preserving their most cherished rivalries—such as annual series with USC, Stanford, and Navy—Notre Dame exercised a contractual opt-out clause to cancel the scheduled home-and-home games against Michigan for 2015–2017. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick informed Michigan's AD Dave Brandon via letter just 10 days after the ACC announcement, providing the required three-year notice. The final game under the original agreement was in 2014, a 31–0 Notre Dame shutout in South Bend.

This decision was purely logistical and financial: Notre Dame needed to prioritize ACC matchups for revenue and scheduling balance, as the conference shift brought stability and media deals. Michigan had already opted out of potential future games (2018–2019) earlier, but Notre Dame's move sealed the series' indefinite pause. Both schools expressed interest in future games, leading to a brief revival in 2018 (Notre Dame win, 24–17) and 2019 (Michigan win, 45–14), but no further dates were added.[/quote]

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