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From the Dallas Cowboys:


The University of Notre Dame and Arizona State University have completed an agreement for a college football game to be played on Oct. 5, 2013, at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas.

The new stadium, currently under construction, is set to open in the summer of 2009. With a capacity of 80,000 fans, expandable to 100,000 for major events, it is set to host Super Bowl XLV following the 2011 NFL season, the annual AT&T Cotton Bowl, the 2009 and 2010 Big 12 Championship Football Games and the annual Texas A&M University vs. University of Arkansas football game.

“Bringing the storied tradition of Notre Dame football to the new stadium in Arlington to take on a national power like Arizona State makes this an exciting day for all of North Texas,â€

We've got Sul Ross that weekend right? Fight for relevance.

Wow...talk about a strange matchup for a game in DFW.

Is there any school in the country that is more in denial about its place in the world than Notre Dame? Do they really think people care about them? The ratings they get on NBC are an absolute joke.

Other than the fact that they are a BCS school, the only difference between them and SMU is that we've accepted our irrelevancy and moved on...Notre Dame still thinks it matters for some reason.

Well so much for my dream of a Notre Dame vs. SMU match up at Jerry World. Honestly, with Orsini's connections to both Notre Dame and the Dallas Cowboys you would think this could get done.

Oh, and Notre Dame is still very relevant in the realm of college football and only a fool would think otherwise. What other program in the country could play in two BCS bowl games with no conference tie in?

StallionsModelT wrote:Well so much for my dream of a Notre Dame vs. SMU match up at Jerry World. Honestly, with Orsini's connections to both Notre Dame and the Dallas Cowboys you would think this could get done.

Oh, and Notre Dame is still very relevant in the realm of college football and only a fool would think otherwise. What other program in the country could play in two BCS bowl games with no conference tie in?

Guess I'm a fool then - your statement doesn't prove anything. Over the last 15 years no team has gotten blown out in big games like Notre Dame. With the exception of the flash in the pan a couple years ago, they haven't done much of anything since 1993 or so. The fact that they have a contract with NBC is the biggest joke of all. The ratings for their games are terrible...well behind those of the other games on ABC/FOX/CBS involving BCS schools.

Not only have they not won a bowl game since 1995, they've gotten absolutely killed in every one of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football#Bowl_games

There's no aura or mystique about Notre Dame football anymore - it went away about the same time our program went into oblivion in the 80s. Now they're just an average BCS school that plays non-conference games against every opponent. When this contract with NBC comes up in a couple years, I'm sure they'll have to either join a conference or really face reality about how "important" their program really is to most college fb fans.

The on field product for Notre Dame clearly has fallen, but the media attention the program receives is still VERY high. Just wait and see how ESPN breaks out the knee pads for them come late July and August just in time for college football season. They are still very relevant. Not good, but relevant.

Unfortunately, you're right - the team sucks, but because they got over on the NCAA to arrange their own private bowl tie-in and their own network, they still get to do this kind of stuff. College sports has become an entity in which media exposure is far more important than on-field and on-court success, because of the money it generates. Notre Dame has to do games like this, though, because today's recuits weren't even BORN the last time they were in the hunt for a national title at the end of a season.

03Mustang wrote:Is there any school in the country that is more in denial about its place in the world than Notre Dame? Do they really think people care about them? The ratings they get on NBC are an absolute joke.

What else do you expect from the Notre Dame Broadcast Channel?

03Mustang wrote:
Other than the fact that they are a BCS school, the only difference between them and SMU is that we've accepted our irrelevancy and moved on...Notre Dame still thinks it matters for some reason.

Yeah, that and the fact that if one were to desire to own ND football season tickets, it is literally impossible to do so. Even alumni aren't assured a seat in the stadium. We could play ND in a non-BCS bowl such as the Humanitarian Bowl, and 29,500 of the 30,000 seats would be full of golden domers. We'd have our band, players parents, a handful of students, a couple of hundred old timers and 25 or 30 from this site.

Sure an hell wish we were as irrelavant as the Golden Domers. If we were we might be playing AS.

5 will get you 10 that this game will be 'sold out', though.

Arizona State? I know of 1 alum who lives in Dallas and she hates football!

Even Notre Dame fans won't go watch that crap en masse. Barring a massive turnaround between now and then by Charlie Weis's gang, there will be 30,000 empty seats, but woohoo, the Morning News will do an eight-page pullout section on that stupid game.

ClassOf81 wrote:Even Notre Dame fans won't go watch that crap en masse. Barring a massive turnaround between now and then by Charlie Weis's gang, there will be 30,000 empty seats, but woohoo, the Morning News will do an eight-page pullout section on that stupid game.

Well, part of the 8 page pull-out will have stories about SMU playing Notre Dame back in the '40s & '50s.

ClassOf81 wrote:Even Notre Dame fans won't go watch that crap en masse. Barring a massive turnaround between now and then by Charlie Weis's gang, there will be 30,000 empty seats, but woohoo, the Morning News will do an eight-page pullout section on that stupid game.

Not so fast my friend...those seats will easily be filled by the alumni of Jesuit High School

Horn&PonyShow wrote:

ClassOf81 wrote:Even Notre Dame fans won't go watch that crap en masse. Barring a massive turnaround between now and then by Charlie Weis's gang, there will be 30,000 empty seats, but woohoo, the Morning News will do an eight-page pullout section on that stupid game.

Not so fast my friend...those seats will easily be filled by the alumni of Jesuit High School

I'm sure ThadFilms will be there.