This won’t take very long, and given the level of disappointment from the Irish faithful- you shouldn’t mind the brevity either. There are just a few small yet broad points that need to be made, and then we can all move on- just as we see underclassmen moving on to the NFL draft.
Ohio State Is A Better Team
As much as we as Notre Dame fans might have deluded ourselves into thinking that Notre Dame was the better team, that point was severely proven wrong in Arizona. That doesn’t mean that Notre Dame had zero chance of beating the Buckeyes, as we have seen so many times in sports the opposite, but it does mean that when the better team shows up to play balls out… the odds plummet against such an upset.