If, at the beginning of the season, you said the Irish would be 3-1 a third of the way through, you’d probably be 100 percent OK with that record.
Sure, you’d expect that loss to come against No. 2 Maryland or No. 8 Denver, but in typical Irish fashion, the loss came to a vastly inferior opponent while the wins came against teams that should have destroyed Notre Dame.
Last weekend, in sunny California, the Irish defeated the notorious Denver Pioneers by a score of 10-7. Denver came into the game ranked No. 8 and the Irish No.