Welcome to the Oracle of Notre Dame! Please select the names of two major college football teams, and the Oracle will find a conference connection between them:
Notes
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.)
Update: Notre Dame is in the ACC in 2020. Thanks covid!
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.
The conference data before 2003 were downloaded
from this
site, courtesy David Wilson and James Howell. I supplied
conference data for 2003 through 2026 myself.
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?
The Oracle's vision spans all time: past, present, and
future. To the Oracle, all time appears to be the past.
Links
The Oracle of
Bacon from the University of Virginia, which was the inspiration
for this page.
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