The 2022 football season comes to an end for Notre Dame this Friday as the Irish are set to battle South Carolina in the Gator Bowl. It’s Notre Dame’s fourth trip to the game all-time, their first since falling to a Phillip Rivers-led North Carolina State team at the end of Tyrone Willingham’s first season.
With the news of Sam Hartman’s seeming imminent arrival, all of the recruiting happenings and dramas of NIL and the transfer portal, it’s easy to sort of forget there is still a game to be played.
Will Notre Dame use it as a chance to develop for the future? Or will it be all hands on deck, upperclassmen included, to finish the year with a victory?
In a hard game to predict the strategy of, it’s even more difficult to predict the end result. However, the Fighting Irish Wire crew makes their best bets for Friday’s Gator Bowl here.