Why not Notre Dame to the SEC?

Hey, a man can dream, can't he? Especially if that man grew up in Pennsylvania, attended St. Patrick's Grade School and Nativity BVM High School - BTW BVM = Blessed Virgin Mary - cheered, cheered for old Notre Dame and religiously watched the Sunday Fighting Irish football replays hosted by legendary broadcaster Lindsey Nelson.

Who was a Tennessee native and UT graduate who started the Vol Network and was the first voice of the Volunteers.

Notre Dame may be geographically and historically a Big Ten member in waiting, more recently and conveniently ACC-adjacent, a smallish, private, Catholic institution that might seem out of place among the "University ofs" that dominate the SEC, but they have more in common than you think. ...

Read more from Kevin about the possibility of the SEC landing the biggest fish in the conference expansion ocean. Only in The Lede.

Alabama's Cornelius Bennett drops Notre Dame's Steve Beuerlein with "The Sack" as captured by legendary Birmingham News photographer Bernard Troncale in Alabama's 1986 win at Legion Field..