DonShula84
Sporty Don
I don't know why you other guys think teams get more hyped up to play Notre Dame. Yeah Notre Dame has the history, but Miami has the national championships - and to be the champs, you don't have to beat the team that was the champs back in the day, you have to beat the best team over the past 20 years. Notre Dame's been a much easier draw over the past 20 years than Miami.
Notre Dame gets more public attention than any other team, whether it's deserved or not is a different issue, but it's hard to argue against that. Wanting to beat the team that gets the most attention seems normal to me. I'm tired of hearing about the Patriots all the time, I'd want to beat to them. You have more championships over the last 20 years, but you arent talked about more, or on TV more, or a bigger part of the public conscious about college football. Movies are made about ND football, they are just a bigger part of the culture than any other college sports team.