Reddit reviews Natural Enemies: The Notre Dame-Michigan Football Feud

Love that video. If you haven't, you should read, ["The 100 Yard War."] (http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/047173649X) Great book about the rivalry.

Also, [Natural Enemies] (http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Enemies-Notre-Dame-Michigan-Football/dp/0836280725) goes over the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry. It's a bit dated, but still a great read that starts at the beginning of each program's football team.

I definitely agree there's more hatred towards Michigan as an ND fan. I'm going off of what I remember from the book Natural Enemies which I read years ago. The way I understand it, in the early 20th century Fielding Yost the coach (and later AD) at Michigan said that any team that played ND would be blacklisted by Michigan. Since Michigan was the main power West of the Ivy's and in the Western Conference (later the Big Ten) a lot of the larger programs had to follow what they said and didn't schedule ND. This eventually led the ND having to play teams like Army and Navy on the East Coast and USC on the West Coast to fill out a competitive football schedule. If anyone has a more in-depth knowledge of college football in the early 20th century please correct me on this.

In my opinion, if ND and Michigan had "gotten along" in the early 20th century ND would look more like other regional, private schools around the midwest like Northwestern or Miami (OH) than what actually happened with the national following developing around ND.

Michigan is, and has always been, ND's enemy. Beating them feels so satisfying but losing to them hurts so much more.

Edit: TIL Miami (OH) is a public university. My foul.