When you compare the two college football programs, it really isn’t even close.
Sure, the overall winning percentages of the two teams are within .002 of each other. And the lesser of the two actually has 33 more wins than the other and leads the head-to-head series 24-17-1 (although that’s pretty misleading considering Michigan’s major advantages in the early going, with Notre Dame having literally just begun learning how to play football, led to them winning the first 8 games in the series).
But when you look at everything else, it’s no contest. The University of Notre Dame has more national championships (no, UM fans…the 11 titles you claim do not equal the 11 consensus titles Notre Dame has), its best-ever coach (I’m being subjective but reasonable, I think you will agree, with this term) was more successful than Michigan’s best-ever coach (Knute Rockne had a winning percentage of .