The expectations for Notre Dame football during the preseason were kind of all over the place nationally. While it isn’t abnormal that Irish fans and media members thought much more of Notre Dame’s prospects this season than the rest of the country, it became more and more noticeable as the game against the Texas A&M Aggies approached.
In this new era of a 12 team playoff, the preseason projections flooded every outlet, online and on television. Even with a more than manageable schedule, most of the projections for the Irish had them somewhere in the 9-11 range (with a few outliers as high as 7 and as low as 12).