Most of you already know my deep affinity for the rivalry trophies that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have with a handful of schools. In fact, I’m fairly certain that I am the only Notre Dame media personality that gives these pieces of hardware their respective share of article space, social media posts, and podcast minutes.
What can I say? I friggin’ love the damn things and what they represent. Rivalry trophies are intrinsically a college football thing, and speak to the nature of the sport — which is full of stuff that doesn’t make any sense, other than it’s what we’ve been doing for 100 years.