A new season began Saturday night for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Eight months of questions, theories, and hopes all came together inside a hot and humid Notre Dame Stadium against the Michigan Wolverines.
There was quite the lead-up for this game. It was the first time since 2014 that these two teams played, it was the season-opener, both teams were ranked in the top 15, and ESPN’s College GameDay chose this game to do their traveling circus routine.
It was quite the big deal.
One of the bigger questions coming into this game was something that had nothing that directly involved the two teams.