When Notre Dame welcomes South Florida to South Bend on Saturday the Irish will be looking to do something for the third year in a row but for what would be just the 12th time in the last 30 seasons.
That is start the year 2-0.
Under Brian Kelly, Notre Dame has done exactly that five of his ten years, including the last two seasons. From 1990-2009 however the Irish did that just seven times in those 20 seasons under the watch of Charlie Weis, Tyrone Willingham, Bob Davie and Lou Holtz.
It’s not the most difficult of opponents coming to Notre Dame Stadium but then again, we said that in September of 2011 when South Florida visited, too.
So what happens this weekend? Here’s what the staff at Fighting Irish Wire thinks headed into the game weekend:
First up Geoffrey Clark (1-0)