We’ve written ad nauseam about the strength and difficulty of the Notre Dame football schedule in the last couple of months. Quite simply — it’s brutal — but there are stretches of the 2018 slate that are more challenging than others.
Recently, ESPN decided to rank the toughest three-game stretches in the country for the 2018 season. Nothing from Notre Dame’s schedule made their list. You can look at that as a positive or a negative.
One thing is for sure, Notre Dame’s omission from ESPN’s list doesn’t mean we couldn’t find a pretty challenging three-game stretch on the 2018 Irish schedule.