I am fully aware that the word “best” is an ambiguous word that means different things to different people. For the purposes of this article, I am defining the “best” game for Notre Dame football during the 2018 regular season as the one that most readily showcased the Irish firing on all cylinders throughout the duration of the game.
I considered offensive performance, defensive performance, play calling, magnitude of the game, and the way Notre Dame responded as a whole in light of said magnitude.
For these reasons, I have deemed Notre Dame’s contest with Syracuse as the best game of the 2018 regular season.