Notre Dame football and Michigan will officially rejuventate the storied rivalry starting in 2033. However, if Jeremiyah Love had his druthers, the annual contest between the two schools would come earlier and revert to something that happens every single year, the way it used to.
Love recently appeared on a podcast with On3’s J.D. Pickell and answered a ton of different questions about his time in South Bend. At one point, the conversation turned to how the annual rivalry with USC died after the two schools couldn’t agree on when in the season they would face off.
Pickell asked Love if he had a school in mind that he’d like to see replace Notre Dame - USC every year. It took the famed running back no time at all to arrive at the Wolverines.
Jeremiyah Love, when asked by @jdpickell which team he’d like to see annually on Notre Dame’s schedule if it can’t be USC:
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Jeremiyah Love wants Notre Dame football to bring back its Michigan rivalry every year
“Honestly, I say, bring back the Michigan rivalry. They bring that back, that’ll be great, good to play against somebody in the Big, and yeah, I feel like that. That rivalry would be very, very cool for Notre Dame. Just bring it back.”
It’s worth pointing out that the Fighting Irish will return to another old rivalry in 2026 and 2027 against Michigan State. The Spartans, Trojans, Wolverines, and Stanford Cardinal rivalries against ND used to be among the most storied in the sport.
These days, the only annual rivalry that survives is the one against the Cardinal, thanks almost entirely to Stanford jumping from the Pac-12 to the ACC during the last round of conference realignment.
There’s very little chance Notre Dame and Michigan will spark up a real annual rivalry for many of the same reasons the USC series died. Big Ten schools are too scared to see their College Football Playoff resumes get tanked by losing to such a tough non-conference opponent.