ND, U$C, UCLA are the last holdouts in the cupcake feast

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Cat's outta the bag now Irishsteelhead :). USC is of little relevance to me, until they get rid of Lame Kiffin, start playing actual football, spontaneously combusts, or simply falls off the face of the planet. Whichever comes first.
 
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We've never played an FCS team? wow hard to believe considering how long this team has been active in college football...
 
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CanadalovesND said:
We've never played an FCS team? wow hard to believe considering how long this team has been active in college football...
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From the late 30's to early 70's the NCAA's major teams played in the University Major Colleges. In the 70's the NCAA set up Div 1, Div 2, etc. In '78 they divided Div 1 into Div 1A and Div 1AA was created in 1978.

ND played a number of teams currently in Div 1 AA PRIOR to that division being created. A number of teams that Harper and Rockne played disappeared from the ND schedule when the NCAA created the Major College group. Over the next 40 years some of the schools that went into the Major College group ended up in the lower divisions as the cost of big time football soared. The Ivy League stayed in Div 1 up to '78. Pennsylvannia was on ND's schedule in the early 50's. Penn was an AP Top 10 team back in the last 40's.
 
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BGIF said:
From the late 30's to early 70's the NCAA's major teams played in the University Major Colleges. In the 70's the NCAA set up Div 1, Div 2, etc. In '78 they divided Div 1 into Div 1A and Div 1AA was created in 1978.

ND played a number of teams currently in Div 1 AA PRIOR to that division being created. A number of teams that Harper and Rockne played disappeared from the ND schedule when the NCAA created the Major College group. Over the next 40 years some of the schools that went into the Major College group ended up in the lower divisions as the cost of big time football soared. The Ivy League stayed in Div 1 up to '78. Pennsylvannia was on ND's schedule in the early 50's. Penn was an AP Top 10 team back in the last 40's.
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bgif, i bet you have a ton of toilet reading material laying around the house, huh?

good on ya!!!
 
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bgif, i bet you have a ton of toilet reading material laying around the house, huh?

good on ya!!!
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Mrs. BGIF won't let football reading material in the bathrooms, something about delay of game.

OMM is partially right I did live a portion of it. He'll have to render first hand knowledge of the Harper and Rockne eras. My databank came from a response to a Big 10 troll on the old Irish Recruiting Journal about 15 years ago. He claimed "Holtz padded the schedule with cupcakes just as Leahy had done". He specificially mentioned Penn and the Ivy League. I had read about ND playing Ivy's in the early 1900s but nothing in the time frame he was discussing. ND played 10 games against Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn from 1914 to 1955. Harper lost to Yale in 1914 for the only loss.
 
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