After an incredible amount of turbulence to start the 2022 season, Notre Dame football appears to be back on track. No, they haven’t looked like the top-10 team most outlets had them as in the preseason, but have improved in winning their last three games as now a few very winnable games present themselves the rest of October.
That starts with the annual Stanford date for Notre Dame, a matchup they’ve been playing each year since 1997 outside of the COVID season of 2020. Although the rivalry was incredibly competitive and heated for a spurt from roughly 2011-2017, things have swayed majorly in favor of Notre Dame since Ian Book’s first career start at Notre Dame Stadium.
Notre Dame enters this game 3-2 and looking better by the week while Stanford stumbles in at 1-4 after suffering a heartbreaking home loss to Oregon State last week.
Notre Dame has released their depth chart for the game which will look as follows: