Notre Dame-No. 16 BYU: Staff game predicitons

What happens Saturday night in Vegas? (In terms of the game, not the other stuff!). @gfclark89, @mikefchen, @alwaysirishinc, @jf_fey, and @nickshepkowski give their picks

Sometimes you look up, see you’re a week into October and all of a sudden that disastrous start to the 2022 season for Notre Dame feels like it was a lifetime ago.  That’s almost certainly how things will feel for the Irish if they’re able to take care of business in the [autotag]Shamrock Series[/autotag] game Saturday night in Las Vegas against a solid BYU team.

But just as easily, if things go south in this one it would feel like a massive step back after a strong showing in North Carolina to close September 2-2 ahead of last week’s bye.

So what happens Saturday night in Sin City and is it the first step in a favorable October that could see Notre Dame go unbeaten for the month?

Here is what the Fighting Irish Wire staff sees happening Saturday night: