Notre Dame Fighting Irish fans are slightly more confident in the direction of their football program after watching other college teams play during the bye week.
Eighty-seven percent of One Foot Down readers and other self-identified Irish fans told SB Nation’s FanPulse that the program was trending in the right direction, up 1.6 percent from the post-Louisville Cardinals poll. (You can sign up here to add your opinion starting Saturday evening.*)
Our fans kept the Irish at No. 7 in their own polls, while merely rearranging the order of their top six.