Apparently, Notre Dame really wants to keep their schedule as easy as possible for the next decade.* Looks like USC and Michigan till 2018, a few Catholic school battles with BC, and eight or nine guaranteed wins (Just like this past season, right?), which puts them in the middle of the BCS money grab.

Speaking of 2018, it looks like the SC/ND contract doesn’t run past that year—unlike their contract with Stanford, which has Stanford on the docket for 2019 and 2020.

* Apparently the first blog to break this story was NDNation.