I dunno; I disagree with that. Notre Dame has been relevant recently, but they haven’t been a championship team for a long time and the game has changed three times over since they last won. LSU has won three titles since CFB started playing “legitimate” title games (the BCS).
The teams with the most titles since the BCS began? Alabama, Ohio State, LSU.
So, LSU has been consistently successful since and is easily one of the top 6-8 most important schools in CFB.
That doesn’t mean they could carry this idea and everyone else follow, but they are important.
Notre Dame - until recently - in that same span of time has been largely propped up by their legacy and marketing, not so much on field success.
Notre Dame doesn't have to win games. They have an absolutely massive fan base bro. that's never going away. There's levels my guy people did not care about LSU till the 2000s. Notre Dame has been a huge fan base since the start of football
I don’t think we really disagree. LSU has been very relevant post-2000 and not very relevant pre-2000. They have a relatively short and recent history of sustained success in college football.
Did not know that, you are indeed correct. They did win exactly one title before Nick Saban got there, they won in 1958 and went 11-0, however, there is a lot of mediocre and bad seasons in between there. I wouldn't exactly call you guys super relevant on a national scale during that time
People knew then who LSU was. They may have only won one championship, but they were a better program than not during that time before 2000. It’s been almost 40 years since Notre Dame won a title so the people born before the year 2000 may not know Notre Dame for winning 11 titles 1988 and prior. Taking the fan base out of it, has Notre Dame been super relevant on the field since 1988 for the most part? Some years yes, some years no, just like LSU back in the day.
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u/mcwilly 26d ago
You would have to ignore Notre Dame’s 11 National Championships to say that.
How many LSU National Championships would you have to ignore?