Friends, we’re somehow finally here — it’s Senior Day this Saturday for the 19th-ranked, 7-3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, as they plan to host the 4-6 Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Saturday.
It feels like just yesterday that we were watching Sam Hartman eviscerate Navy and Tennessee State, and yet here we are in his final home game as a collegiate player, facing off against his former team that helped him become one of the most accomplished ACC QBs of all-time.
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The Irish are coming off a bye week after a really disappointing loss on the road against a middling Clemson Tigers squad two weeks back, and so despite Wake’s bad record and unimpressive statistical resume, Irish fans can’t help but wonder if anything else might go sideways in the final couple games of Marcus Freeman’s second season.