re: Texas ND Sign Four Year Deal

and didn't LSU just sign Jacksonville State for 2015?

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Who else? I am sure Michigan State and Purdue are on there, two teams that are usually decent, and definitely capable of handing the Irish losses. Stanford as well?

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Yep, and Navy is a big rivalry (dates back to WWII days, when the Navy basically saved ND as a university). So ND plays Navy every year as a sort of "thank you" for that (though lately, Navy hasn't exactly been kind back ).

From wiki:

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Despite the one-sided result the last few decades, most Notre Dame and Navy fans consider the series a sacred tradition for historical reasons. Notre Dame, like many colleges, faced severe financial difficulties during World War II. The US Navy made Notre Dame a training center and paid enough for usage of the facilities, with federal tax money, to keep the University afloat. Notre Dame has since extended an open invitation for Navy to play the Irish in football and considers the game annual repayment on a debt of honor. The series is marked by mutual respect, as evidenced by each team standing at attention during the playing of the other's alma mater after the game, a tradition that started in 2005. Navy's athletic director, on renewing the series through 2016, remarked "...it is of great interest to our collective national audience of Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni, and the Navy family at large."[13] The series is scheduled to continue indefinitely; renewals are a mere formality.[13]

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ETA: Also, Boston College, who isn't bad.

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That is 5 losses in 2015.

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can i borrow your crystal ball bro---------