From the Tim Brown towel article. I was mildly surprised to here that the 1988 Cotton Bowl following the 87 season was the first time we encountered A&M. Glancing around we had played most of the SWC except TTech; Cotton Bowls with UT and UH, buy games in the 70s with Rice and TCU, SMU visited South Bend twice in the 30s.
Gee, who could have guessed that legal pay for play with unlimited no-sit transfers would lead to the richest programs buying the top players from the lesser ones?
The injury from Irish defenders mauling Leonard at the end of the ND-Duke game. We really stomped over our potential quality win and future starter.
I am reading that both ND and A&M are cobbling their Olines together like Frankenstein. This could be a low scoring game that turns on a mobile qb.
Everything so far (40 years+) has indicated the big programs want the benefits of beating the smaller schools but only want to toss them some peanuts instead of sharing revenue. The easiest example is that Texas can schedule Rice almost whenever they want without giving them a seat at the table. Therefore the new league will keep September open to play Wake Forest and TPTB assume/hope that will keep the Deacon fanbase engaged in college football.
It happens in cable too. I was watching The Shining some fly by night horror horror channel and it went Here's Johnny! Are you embarrassed about your erectile dysfunction?
May I have a mulligan for Night Court's 2nd episode with Jeff Corey and Michael J Fox?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Night_Court_episodes#Season_1_(1984)