I believe it was Herb Brooks that said, “Great moments are born from great opportunity.” And that certainly is what is facing the Ball State Cardinals on Saturday as they travel to South Bend to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Both squads come into the contest at 1-0, but not all 1-0 records are created equally.
Ball State downed FCS Central Connecticut State in their season opener 42-6. The bad news was that it was an FCS squad and the talent gap between CCS and Notre Dame is somewhere between gargantuan and epic, but there was good news to be had.