Rivalry game I miss? The old Paul Bunyan Axe games when it actually meant something. Back in the 1990s we played Minnesota and both sides had kids who grew up hating the other school, not guys who showed up for a bag of cash and transferred the next year. Now we schedule Notre Dame for a Thursday afternoon game and the whole thing feels like a TV show, not a real fight.
The 1994 squad would have eaten Notre Dame alive in South Bend because Alvarez built teams that wanted to hit...