Some people, national football writers and media members specifically, almost want to refuse to believe that the biggest game of college football’s opening weekend in 2018 actually happened.
However, it did. Notre Dame beat Michigan 24-17 in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated. You can relive that on Notre Dame’s YouTube channel this Saturday night starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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Notre Dame 🆚 Michigan
📍 Your Place
📆 Saturday
⏰ 7:30 p.m. ET
📺 https://t.co/TfzJ0M4QtM
📲@VividSeats#GoIrish pic.twitter.com/Vy7eqXNqMH— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) May 14, 2020
As the year went on Notre Dame kept winning, albeit not always in the most impressive of ways. However, it was often treated as if that season opener was never actually played because Michigan would wind up being a team that much of the media wanted to treat as a legitimate championship contender, even with the Notre Dame loss.
Michigan would end up getting pummeled by Ohio State to close the regular season while Notre Dame would go 12-0 before getting run out of the Cotton Bowl by Clemson.
Maybe much of the college football world will actually watch it this time around because they seemed to have missed the boat on it originally.