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For ND to come to this agreement with the CFP, every other P4 conference would have had to agree/sign off on it as well. That means at a minimum, the Big Ten commissioner knew about this.
So for the tweet to be true, Tony Petiti would have had to deliberately decide to not tell the ADs of the schools in his own conference about the MoU he agreed to. Which makes no sense.
Notre Dame's MoU was already signed by the time knowledge of it was made public. That means the Big Ten already knew about it, which means USC also already knew about it.
USC's been looking to get out of this game for a while now (scroll back to earlier pages). Don't give them a pass for this. The ND MoU is just an excuse, the actual reason is that Lincoln Riley needs to save his job and wants to make USC's schedule as easy as possible.