Now look me in the eye and say that joining the ACC and adding 2 more ACC games would make their SOS better without laughing.
Our five contractual ACC games plus one: UNC, Miami, BC, SMU, Syracuse, and Stanford. 4 B1G teams Wisconsin, Michigan St, Purdue, and USC. Rice (AAC, better than a FCS team) and Navy which has been a respectable team the last couple of years but that game will never go away no matter what ND does as independent or conference or what.
So.... it is an ACC and B1G schedule but "join a conference!" uh... ok. Who is going to tell me that if ND dropped two B1G games in this schedule and added two more ACC games that the whiners/haters would be silent about the schedule?
But in NIL and portal era, it is pretty early to make statements like 'embarrassing' schedule and kind of hints towards a bias in writing the article. And that is important point on top of the fact that these teams can change quickly, there is no way to know that a team like Wisconsin which usually fields a strong team is going to suck a few years down the road when these things are scheduled let alone next year when you have transfer portals that can gut or build a team over night.
We have been scheduling some home and home series and targeting SEC teams like Texas and Auburn (hopefully they get stronger come time to play them).
