The conversation around a 48-37 victory doesn’t last long when the game was much more lopsided than the score suggests. Those discussions are especially short-lived when the following weekend features a top-10, prime-time, nationally-implicating contest. Such will obviously be the case when Notre Dame visits Miami on Saturday (8 p.m. ET, ABC).
The Hurricanes (8-0) have won 13 straight, dating back to an Oct. 29. 2016, loss at the hands of … the Irish. Miami then won its next eight games by multiple possessions. Of the opponent Notre Dame faced a year ago, 13 starters remain in the lineup as of this past weekend, including three-fifths of the Hurricanes’ offensive line and all of their defensive front-seven.