Here's an amusing article about Notre Dame trying to
get a game under their belt before playing Michigan on
September 11th. Enjoy.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)--Notre Dame still isn't sure
which team it will play first next football season.

Notre Dame is scheduled to open the season Sept. 11 at
home against Michigan. But the Wolverines will have
already played a game Sept. 4 against Miami of Ohio.

The Irish are trying to move their Oct. 30 game at BYU
to Sept. 4 so the Wolverines won't have an advantage
from already having played a game.

The problem is, BYU is scheduled to play Southern Cal
on Sept. 4.

To try to accommodate the Irish, BYU is trying to
switch their game with USC to Sept. 18, the South Bend
Tribune reported Thursday. But the Cougars are
scheduled to play Stanford that day. So the Cougars
are trying to reschedule that game as well.

That would affect other teams' schedules as well.

"It's as complicated as anything we've seen in a
while," said John Heisler, associate athletic director
at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame had been trying to change the date for
months. Just last month after the spring game, coach
Tyrone Willingham said there was no chance the Irish
would play a game before the Michigan game. But
Heisler said talks about changing the game revived
earlier this month.

"The key to this thing is a handful of people feeling
that this is something that will work for them,"
Heisler said. "That's what makes it complicated. It's
a different set of circumstances for everyone on that
list."

Heisler said he couldn't estimate the odds of Notre
Dame being able to make the switch, but said the deal
was closer to becoming reality on Thursday than it
ever has been.

"It's kind of day-to-day if not hour-to-hour," he
said. "It's kind of based on the most recent phone
calls that have been made."

Heisler said he doesn't know how long the Irish can
wait before giving up on moving up their opening game.

"The complicated part is it's late in the year to be
pulling this thing off when there are so many moving
parts," he said. "What's so time-consuming is trying
to figure out if you can get all the pieces to work
and fit."

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