The Oracle of Notre Dame
Welcome to the Oracle of Notre Dame! Please enter the names of two major college football teams, and the Oracle will find a conference connection between them:
(Here is a list of teams included,
with the spellings used.)
Notes
- You can use most of the typical, well-known abbreviations some
teams have (for example, BYU for Brigham Young). Some abbreviations
are ambiguous; if you enter one, the Oracle will ask you to spell the
name out. If you are having trouble entering a team's name, please
refer to the list of teams.
- Notre Dame is not in the database, because it's never been in a
football conference. (You see, the name of this site is sarcasm.)
- None of the Ivy League schools has ever played football in another
conference. Therefore, you cannot connect your school to Harvard or
Yale. Sorry.
- Two different teams from the same conference have one degree of
separation. You really shouldn't need the Oracle of Notre Dame to
tell you the conference connection between Ohio State and Michigan.
- Here are some stats about the
Oracle's data set.
- The conference data before 2003 were downloaded from this
site, courtesy David Wilson and James Howell. I supplied
conference data for 2003 through 2013 myself. The latest change is
Texas A&M's move to the SEC in 2012.
- Only teams from major conferences are considered. The definition
of major is whatever James Howell cared enough about to list in his
data sheets.
- Data not guaranteed to be accurate, nor complete.
FAQ
- Why does the Oracle of Notre Dame return all results in past
tense, even for future alignments?
- We mortals have knowledge only of the past, but the Oracle's
knowledge covers all time: past, present, and future. Like us, the
Oracle uses the past tense to speak of time for which it has
knowledge, which is all time.
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