Notre Dame was able to travel to No. 16 Syracuse and walk out with exactly what they needed as they get to come back home to prepare for an undefeated Clemson team fresh off a ranked road victory as the Irish delivered Saturday.
Was it a perfectly executed masterpiece? No, but it didn’t have to be as it was enough to get the job done. The Irish squeezed the juice out of the Orange and added some to this week’s marque matchup game with a strong win, that’s for sure.
There are plenty of obvious big-picture positives to take away from this game. I wanted to highlight some more under-the-radar aspects of this win that caught my attention.