Another year, another unthinkable home loss for a Marcus Freeman-coached Notre Dame football team. Freeman “led” a lifeless team onto the field as a 4-touchdown favorite and walked off of it with one of the most embarrassing losses in program history – a loss right up there with the embarrassing loss to Marshall in Freeman’s first home-opener in 2022. A week after having the national media gush over them, the Fighting Irish will spend the next week as the butt of everyone’s jokes. Life really does come at you fast.
Marcus Freeman doesn’t know how to prepare a team for lesser opponents
In a cruel twist of fate, Notre Dame has a coach who can get his players up for big games after years of big game failures but seemingly doesn’t know how to get his players up for games against bad teams.