Colin Cowherd claims Notre Dame is ‘crawling back’ to USC

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After calling a halt to their longstanding rivalry, the USC Trojans and Notre Dame Fighting Irish are talking again.

The USC-Notre Dame game has appeared to be yet another casualty to the rapidly changing world of college football where storied rivalries have been cast aside int he pursuit of more money and more power. Not even a bid from Netflix could bring the two sides back together.

But now recent reports have indicated there could be renewed interest and momentum towards restoring the rivalry. But if you listen to Colin Cowherd, he has a specific reasoning why. It’s because Notre Dame has come “crawling” back to USC because they are running out of good teams to play on their schedule.

“USC and Notre Dame are talking again because Notre Dame came crawling back,” Cowherd said.

After talking about the changing landscape of college football amidst rivalries coming and going, Cowherd proclaimed USC has “all the leverage” thanks to playing in the Big Ten.

“Money is rolling in at USC. They don’t need another cold weather game in October sandwiched between the Buckeyes and the Hoosier games, Penn State and Oregon games, they don’t need it. Notre Dame needs it. Because Notre Dame has discovered as the Big Ten has added Oregon, Washington, USC, and as the SEC has added Texas and Oklahoma, it becomes superconferences. And now because of NIL, even Vanderbilt and Indiana are good. So nobody wants to play Notre Dame,” Cowherd added.

In fairness to the Irish, this has been the conventional wisdom for why they have to join a conference for decades, specifically the Big Ten, and it hasn’t happened yet. However, the Big Ten hasn’t fully committed to laying down their trump card and preventing conference teams en masse from playing the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame has future games planned against Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, and Indiana.