The countdown is on!
100 days from now (we hope) Notre Dame will return to the football field for Season 133 when the Irish take on Navy in a Week Zero affair. Will the game be played as scheduled? I’m guessing not in Ireland but perhaps with the way the news has gone this week we’ll see it get underway on time.
Each day from now until Notre Dame kicks off the year we’ll count down the days with the number and why it’s significant in the history of Notre Dame football.
Now we could take the easy route and start with perhaps the most-known 100 in Notre Dame football, that being Lou Holtz’s career win total as the Irish head coach. Instead, we’ll go a little more obscure but still plenty impressive with our first entry.
100: Michael Floyd’s total receptions during the 2011 season, the most ever by a Notre Dame player in a single season.
Golden Tate’s 93 receptions in his Biletnikoff Award winning season of 2009 are the second most while Floyd’s 79 in 2010 and Jeff Samardzija’s 78 and 77 receptions in 2006 and 2005 round out Notre Dame’s single-season top-five.
100 days to go!!!
We really, really hope.
