SOUTH BEND, Ind. — With an experienced corps of returning starters looking to wash away the bitter taste of a 2014 regular season that rolled off the rails, Notre Dame football begins 2015 with high expectations.
The Irish are ranked 11th in the preseason AP poll, their highest ranking since the 2006 squad opened the year second in the country.
Irish head coach Brian Kelly begins his sixth season in South Bend and said this year’s squad is faster, more athletic and deeper than the 2012 group that finished the regular season 12-0 and fell to Alabama in the national title game.