Blue roundup: Will Notre Dame's decision to opt out of future games with Michigan help or hurt BYU?
Michigan's Denard Robinson runs out of the tackle of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o (5) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, in South Bend, Ind.
Darron Cummings, Associated Press
Notre Dame is opting out of its series with Michigan, meaning the last scheduled game between college football's winningest programs will take place in 2014. Will this help or hurt BYU? The Cougars and Fighting Irish have four announced games that have not been scheduled.
This week's episode of BYUtv's True Blue features an interview with Cougar tight end Kaneakua Friel and a look back at last Thursday's loss at Boise State.
Watch this week's episode of KSL-TV's BYU Football with Head Coach Bronco Mendenhall.
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Jeff Call has been a sportswriter for the Deseret News since 1997. He is the BYU beat writer and has been covering Cougar sports since 1993, when he served as sports editor at the Daily Universe. Call has written several more ..
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It's exciting to be able to play a storied program like Notre Dame, but it's certainly not a make or break situation for BYU if Notre Dame decides to opt out of part of it's scheduled 6-game series with BYU.
I still think More..
@ NightOwlAmerica "The only reason to keep BYU is to play a cup cake. The decision by ND is very revealing. They just dumped a long time rival with a storied program. What do you honestly think that says about the relationship between BYU & More..
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Sorry to burst your crimson-colored BYU-hating bubble, but if Notre Dame decides to keep BYU on its schedule, what it says about BYU is the Cougars are such a well-respected program that a storied program like Notre Dame would More..