Notre Dame Fighting Irish football is back! To celebrate the Irish return, we decided to collaborate with Jason DeLoach (@ScalpRNoles), who is an analytics contributor for Tomahawk Nation, to get another analytics driven perspective on the matchup. The Irish are twenty-one point favorites in their return from a two week hiatus, and will play in Notre Dame Stadium under the lights for the first time this year. It’s been two weeks since all of you statistics professors out there have read one of these previews, so here is a link to a primer on the analytics that will be used in this article.