New Irish coach Brian Kelly might like to schedule Texas.

"When you look at the teams that carry the same mission [as Notre Dame], Texas does that obviously," he said. "Those kinds of schools really are attractive to me.

"[Athletic director] Jack Swarbrick and I will sit down and look at our schedule as we move forward. I want to be around the best, because we're asked to be the best. And that's the kind of schedule I want."

This would be all kinds of allsome. A home and home would work as would a neutral site like Jerry World or Mexico City.

Now we don't need to schedule Notre Dame. Shit, with our current setup we beat OU and we're in the BCS Championship. But this would be great from a fan's perspective.

And we owe these guys.