When it comes to building up Notre Dame’s opponents, two won games of note this weekend, though one was largely a means of staying afloat. This coming weekend a similar slim showing should occur.
In other words, the Irish résumé is not going to start shining anytime soon.
Michigan (7-1): After taking a week off, the No. 5 Wolverines will host No. 14 Penn State (3:45 ET; ESPN) as 10-point favorites with a combined point total over/under of 53. It is undeniably impressive Michigan is favored by two possessions against a top-15 team.
Try to knock it, diminish it, what have you, but if the Wolverines can limit Trace McSorley to fewer than 21 points, it will be only the third time that has happened since 2015, the other being a few weeks ago against Michigan State and the first … at Michigan in 2016, a 49-10 Wolverines victory.