It’s a weird place to be.
A decade ago if you told me I’d feel at all disappointed as a lifelong Notre Dame fan after a 10-2 regular season I’d have thought you were nuts.
The program was broken, ten wins hadn’t happened in a single season since 2006 and had happened just twice in the sixteen seasons previous.
Now we sit and perhaps things aren’t where we ultimately want them to be, but guess what, they’re still in a pretty good spot compared to where they were.
Next year will come and the same expectations for a push to the College Football Playoff will be the expectation, but we’ll discuss that over the next eight months because we’ll have plenty of time to.
For now let’s enjoy this last ride together for 2019, a team that could probably be described like they did Apollo-11: A successful failure.
If you’re not excited for the Camping World Bowl I get it. I’m not anywhere near a level I’d be at if it was Notre Dame playing in the Cotton or Orange Bowl but that’s not changing.
This is the last time we’ll see Team 132 together and I’m hoping they go out victorious.
It’ll be a long eight months until we get to see this team in action again.
If you’re not ready for the game after my pep talk I’m hardly surprised, so I’ll let senior defensive end Daelin Hayes take over from here.
As long as we stay together — locked in arms — nothing can break us.#GoIrish pic.twitter.com/ilgpvlDYVg
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) December 23, 2019
Go Irish.
Beat Cyclones.