ESPN’s Bill Connelly produced an article earlier this week on the most significant “ifs” for each of the top team’s chances of a championship run. Connelly listed 4 “ifs” for Notre Dame missed the mark both in terms of the details and the big picture.
Before diving too deep into this, I will say doing a deep dive like this on so many teams is a challenging endeavor given all the intricacies of each roster. That said, the Notre Dame portion of this analysis makes it clear that it was really just based on looking at a stat sheet and depth chart.