Per the perfectly named Bubba Cunningham, an antagonist in an early episode of Dukes of Hazzard:

Bubba Cunningham confirmed to an audience at a Tulsa football luncheon on Thursday afternoon that he has the finalized contract which links the Golden Hurricane into a 2010 game at Notre Dame.

No official announcement has been made by either school. The expected game date is Oct. 30 in South Bend, Ind.

TU coach Todd Graham was asked earlier last month about the anticipated trip to Notre Dame.

"As a program, our guys want to play in those type of games," Graham said. "The difference from six years ago is then they'd been thrilled to play in that game. Now our guys think they could win

those type of games.

"We're a team that, I think, put ourselves in position from a personnel standpoint, a work standpoint and a talent standpoint that we're ready to step forward and take on those challenges."

I think Tulsa is a very interesting team and have no trouble playing them, and neither should you, since their site proudly states that they are "High Octane, Most Explosive Football in the Nation."  How does this fit into the rest of the 2010 schedule?  Well, that's going to depend on if some teams currently on the schedule get back to their old ways of top-tierness (Michigan) or revert back from BCS-busting, undefeated magic (Utah).  It's certainly not a bad schedule, but it also doesn't jump off the page at you in a way that say, the 2012 one does.