[Mick]

.....playing UDFG every year, you have a friend in South Bend.

https://www.si.com/college/notredame/foo...g-stanford

ND fans always used to enjoy the notion that playing Stanford was, well just a little beneath them.
After last year they perhaps think they can start feeling that way again.

Read the last poster in the comments section (there's just six comments).  He postulates all the reasons that the rivalry should stay in place and made 10x more sense than the writer of the article.

[Mick]

.....playing UDFG every year, you have a friend in South Bend.

https://www.si.com/college/notredame/foo...g-stanford

ND fans always used to enjoy the notion that playing Stanford was, well just a little beneath them.
After last year they perhaps think they can start feeling that way again.

Read the last poster in the comments section (there's just six comments).  He postulates all the reasons that the rivalry should stay in place and made 10x more sense than the writer of the article.