The 2020 regular season is over, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are once again undefeated. Before diving into a few specific threads, let’s take a moment to appreciate what Saturday’s ho-hum blowout of the Syracuse Orange brought the Irish. A third undefeated regular season this decade, and a second in three years. Four consecutive ten-win seasons. Individual records and milestones all over the field (we’ll get to that later). In a year where not having a season at all was a very real possibility, we should be incredibly thankful for this remarkable campaign.
With all that said, let’s dive into three things I noticed in Notre Dame’s 45-21 win over Syracuse.