Although the Notre Dame Fighting Irish don’t play a game this week, it is nonetheless a sacred one within our community, as we celebrate the annual ritual of Cheeseburger Week. For the uninitiated, this tradition was born in 2006 when Charlie Weis’ 6-1, 11th-ranked Irish were jumped in the polls by the defending champion Florida Gators, who had a bye week while the Irish got a dramatic win over the gamey-though-unranked UCLA Bruins. Charlie took this personally:
“Another team [Florida] that jumped us wasn’t even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us.