Will the Big 12 suddenly become Notre Dame football’s ally?

Notre Dame’s football history against the Big 12 is as thin as its history with just about anything else.

Especially the current makeup of the Big 12.

The last time Notre Dame played a regular-season game against a Big 12 opponent was on Labor Day weekend 2016, when the team lost in overtime at Texas.

Texas, of course, has since moved on to the SEC. The last time Notre Dame played a regular season game against a current member of the Big 12 (which was also a member of the conference at the time of the game) is all the way back in 1999, when the Irish opened the season against Kansas.

Despite this, Notre Dame appears to be forging a relatively new friendship with the reworked conference.

Notre Dame has replaced USC with BYU

While USC head coach Lincoln Riley announced to anyone who would listen for more than a year that the Notre Dame rivalry was in serious jeopardy, the Fighting Irish were busy searching for a respectable replacement.

That’s why Notre Dame was able to announce a home-and-home series with BYU not long after the USC pause was made official.

BYU has been on Notre Dame’s schedule before, most recently in 2022, but only joined the Big 12 in 2023.

The series combines two teams that each thought should have been in the College Football Playoff last season, and it’s not normal when it comes to scheduling big games in sports.

Now another blueblood on Notre Dame’s future schedule is on the line, and another Big 12 team is offering to step up.

Notre Dame-Texas series in jeopardy

Speaking last week at the SEC Spring Meetings, University of Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte made it clear that the scheduled games between Notre Dame and Texas for the 2028 and 2029 seasons are nothing more than “tentative.”

Del Conte may not have canceled the matches, but he certainly didn’t sound too enthusiastic about the chances of them being played either.

As a result, an old Big 12 rival of the Longhorns tried to jump in to get a series with Notre Dame, and it wasn’t someone who traditionally didn’t have much good to say about the Fighting Irish.

Texas Tech offers to take on Notre Dame

Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire took aim at Texas last week.

He offered to rearrange Texas Tech’s schedule to get Texas in Week 1 (which is absurd considering Texas hosts Ohio State in Week 2), and then mentioned Texas’ threat to pull out of the Notre Dame deal.

“I saw a reaction from [Del Conte] that he’s not sure if Texas will play Notre Dame in ’28 and ’29. We also need a ’28 and ’29 game because Mississippi State is turning on us, so we’ll take that game if they want to get out. If Texas doesn’t want to play Notre Dame, we’d love to play Notre Dame in ’28, ’29.”

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If you can only pick one, historically few teams draw the national interest that comes with playing a home-and-home series with Texas. If you have a choice, I’ll choose to play Texas every time.

However, if Texas is going to go the route of some others and make a non-conference joke, then adding Texas Tech is a pretty impressive addition.

The Red Raiders made the College Football Playoff for the first time last season, and with the way they have handled NIL thus far, you would expect the program to have staying power towards the top of the college football world.

With BYU bending over backwards to do what it did for Notre Dame, and Texas Tech speaking out about having the Irish on the schedule, I’m suddenly hoping for a Notre Dame vs. Texas Tech series ahead, whether Texas cancels the home-and-home or not.

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