For the second year in a row, your Notre Dame Fighting Irish finished on a high note with a bowl win over a ranked opponent. This time it was a dominating 40-8 effort out in El Paso against the corpse of the Oregon State Beavers, a game where Notre Dame’s superior recruiting, depth, culture and motivation asserted themselves over a team rocked by both personnel attrition and program-level uncertainty.
The only sensible choice for this, our final song of the week, is a loving farewell. To truly commemorate the spirit of this point in the season I’ve decided to include not only the song, but the movie scene that first introduced me to it:
This game left a lot of Notre Dame fans hopeful and quite a long time for them to sit on that hope - let’s dive into three reasons why.