Notre Dame football’s senior tight end Eli Raridon accepted an invitation to the East-West Shrine Bowl on Monday morning.

Joel Klatt called out Notre Dame and head football coach Marcus Freeman over their decision to skip a college bowl game.

Recently the Notre Dame Fighting Irish weren’t selected to participate in the college football playoffs. Its reaction: To pull out of a bowl game. Sour grapes?

Following Notre Dame’s surprising snub from the College Football Playoff, the program decided they will not be playing in a bowl game this year, joining a number of teams that have opted out of bowl games for various reasons. Notre Dame was expected to be one of the last teams into the CFP but were instead passed over for Miami and Alabama.

Notre Dame is doing exactly what fans hate about college football right now—acting like they’re above everyone else. Skipping out on a bowl game in 2025? That’s not leadership or tradition—that’s arrogance,

Few college football programs are more prestigious or influential than the University of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish. So when the team, fresh off a College Football Playoff snub, opted out of a bowl game,

Irish fans have questions about how Notre Dame got here and how they can avoid a replay of this brutal end to a season.

Just 23,269 fans attended the LA Bowl Saturday, the lowest in the game’s six-year history. According to a report from On3.com’s Brett McMurphy, the game will end as its contract expires. It seems to be a victim of this shift in the college football landscape, among other causes.