October 11, 2015: Notre Dame’s stadium expansion includes academic facilities and its first video boards.
I wrote before on this blog that Iowa State would never play Notre Dame in football unless the stars aligned for a bowl game. Well, much like with “ESPN College Gameday” in Ames, an improbable course of events has resulted in exactly that.
AND I CAN’T GO. (It is possible I will never be able to attend a bowl game again.) But at least I can watch it on TV, given the kickoff time and lucking out into being on ABC for the second time in three years.
Tonight’s and tomorrow’s games, with Iowa playing USC and Iowa State playing Notre Dame, would be the perfect matchups to josh “Irish Trojan” Brendan Loy (who graduated from both). But after he ended his blog, we lost contact, and then the 2016 election changed him.
After Saturday, there will be eight teams the Irish have never played, three of which are in the Big 12. But now is the Cyclones’ chance, in ISU’s first Florida bowl game ever, in front of maybe the biggest TV audience since at least the 2011 Oklahoma State game if not ever…
WITH BLACK HELMETS?!?!?
Sigh.