No, there won’t be a lot at stake when Notre Dame visits Stanford to wrap up the 2023 season. But that doesn’t make the decision to relegate this contest to the fringe and dying Pac-12 Network any easier to fathom. Such is the case when you’ve lost a couple of games you should have won.
Taking away the humiliation of being stuck on a network hardly anyone living anywhere near Notre Dame is likely to watch, those same people most likely don’t even get the station. That means Irish fans are going to have go out of their way to figure out how to watch the regular-season finale. Whether that means shelling out extra money or having to bum off someone else, it’s not great to be put in this situation.
Social media was very opinionated about this turn of events. Here are some of the best tweets that were sent out about it: