Notre Dame enters a rare time in its modern football history where the Irish are playing for a new head coach despite the previous one not being relieved of his duties. [autotag]Charlie Weis[/autotag], [autotag]Tyrone Willingham[/autotag], and [autotag]Bob Davie[/autotag] were all forced out while [autotag]Lou Holtz[/autotag] didn’t exactly have the prettiest of exits.
What comes with that however isn’t a sense of rebuild but more of a reload. How does Notre Dame take the incredibly strong standing it accomplished under [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] and grow that into a team with a legitimate shot at winning a national championship under [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag]?
The first year isn’t an easy one for Freeman as Notre Dame has trips to Ohio State and USC on the docket, while a neutral site game in Las Vegas against BYU won’t be easy and welcoming a pre-season top-five Clemson team to South Bend highlights the home slate.
So what is a fair expectation for this squad? And where do you expect the Irish to be playing come bowl season?
Here is how the Fighting Irish staff sees the season going – game by game. 9jin8k ujynhbthuihgu 7hygtfr