Notre Dame didn’t have this kind of fun last year. After a season plagued with injuries in 2014, the Irish dropped 5 out of its last 6 games that included a 4 game skid at the end of the season. The last game… The USC butt whooping that embarrassed the program.
Being 7-5, the Irish were still able to go to a bowl, but because they were in the second year of an odd bowl arrangement, Notre Dame was forced to go to a “mid-level” bowl yet AGAIN, in the Brian Kelly era. Notre Dame fans were eager- yet worried to find out who the opponent would be for the Fighting Irish.