This bye week was great but also kind of scary.
I went into the week still way too high off of Notre Dame’s win against UNC. Writing data reviews for this year’s team through the first three weeks of play wasn’t always the most fun and a lot of the energy got spent grasping for nuggets of hope.
The win against the Tar Heels made that task a lot easier and I found myself backsliding into the true nature of ND football fandom: excessive optimism. With every article read and data viz reviewed, my theories for how great things might turn out for the rest of the season became stronger and stronger even though in my heart I knew I should be exercising more restraint.