Whatever Brian Kelly might be saying, it’s clear that his team is guilty of scoreboard watching.
Take one look at social media from yesterday around 7:00 p.m. Eastern, and you’ll see tweet after tweet from excited Notre Dame football players, maybe surprised themselves by the amount of respect the Irish earned in the first poll released by the College Football Playoff committee.
Ranked fifth with two teams ahead of them facing off this weekend, and it doesn’t take a math major to assume that the Irish could ascend into one of four coveted playoff spots come this time next week.