Senior day is almost always guaranteed to be weird, and that was especially the case at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday as the No. 2 Fighting Irish sleepwalked through their 10th win of the season, a 45-21 victory over Syracuse.
The game was played with an incredibly small crowd, even by 2020 standards. The student body is home for the holiday break that goes into the new year, so not even the band was present on Saturday. Only 6,831 spectators saw the action live.
It might not have been a Picasso, but it was the 10th win of the year as Notre Dame wraps up its third unbeaten regular season under Brian Kelly.
For the first time in program history, the Irish have won 10 or more games for a fourth straight season.
With that all noted, here are five takeaways from Saturday’s senior day win.
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