On Monday’s Irish Illustrated podcast, Scout’s Tim Prister, Tim O’Malley and Pete Sampson were asked: “Excluding Alabama and Ohio State, what programs can we more reasonably compare to ND today? Who is Notre Dame’s current peer group of schools?”
To answer that, I looked at records vs. FBS teams since 2010, Brian Kelly’s first year with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Prister, O’Malley and Sampson are correct in that the Stanford Cardinal are not a peer; they’ve actually been much better than Notre Dame.
Sampson picked the Kansas State Wildcats, which was the best guess.