Notre Dame crushes Michigan . . . and there was much rejoicing

As this post discusses in more detail, the media hype about a "storied rivalry" (etc.) between the Fighting Irish and the Skunk Bears has manage to inflate a relatively recent and not-THAT-long series into something it's not.  Of course, it could have been a "storied rivalry" (etc.) had Michigan officials (like many others in the Big 10 and elsewhere) in the first half of the 20th century not based decisions regarding the University of Notre Dame on fears and prejudices regarding Catholicism.  In Catholic Heaven, I suspect this was the reaction.