A Look Ahead

Notre Dame and the University of Michigan just announced that they would extend their current series another twenty years, meaning that they will play each other until 2031. The current series stands at 19-14-1 in favor of Michigan, although the record since the Ford Administration is 12-10-1 in favor of Notre Dame. Here are my predictions for the series in the year 2031:


1) Notre Dame leads series 38-19-1 after a 24 game win streak which began in the last year of the Carr coaching era and lasted throughout the entire span of the Jimmy Johnson coaching era at Michigan. In desperation, coach Johnson has even persuaded the Michigan department of corrections to build a team dormitory facility on campus to allow Michigan to attract premier recruits with some societal debt.


2) Notre Dame head coach, Charlie Weis, Jr. will face rival coach, Joe Paterno, for the second time when Notre Dame plays Penn State in their first offsite meeting in Notre Dame's new 8-3-1 scheduling format. The neutral site meeting will be held in the new 95,000 capacity facility built for Indiana University at South Bend. This will be the second game played in this stadium in the 2031 season as they also face the Titans in their away opener.



3) SEC coaches make a familiar complaint about Notre Dame's recruiting advantages, due to the difficulty of getting high school athletes to consider southern locales. Once again, they cite global warming and the health affects of any skin exposure below the Mason Dixon line as unfairly hurting schools in Florida, Texas, California, and Arizona whereas students in Northern Indiana are enjoying moderate temperatures throughout the winter.

USC songgirl in year 2031

4) Officials discussed the possibility of a playoff when the current ESIFRIMIBCS (Extra Special Improved Format Really I Mean It Bowl Championship Series) expires in 2050.

Please feel free to leave your own Kreskin-like predictions in the comment section.