While the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s remaining schedule is not the toughest six-game stretch the program has even endured, you’d need to go back nearly 90 years to find one more daunting.
The Irish’s remaining opponents — USC Trojans, N.C. State Wolfpack, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Miami-Florida Hurricanes, Navy Midshipmen and Stanford Cardinal — are a combined 31-7 (.815). (They’re 28-7 if you remove the Pack, Deacons and Hurricanes’ wins versus FCS teams.)
This prompted Jim Small to ask if this was the “most difficult stretch in ND history?