Notre Dame won a football game on Saturday, which is a good thing. A lot of people are upset about this good thing that happened because winning and losing is almost beside the point at this juncture of the season. It’s all about “the standard” now, an elusive and subjective metric we use to decide whether the game was a success or whether it was a failure. So while Notre Dame won, they almost lost, which means it’s basically a loss, and it was to a “bad team” on top of that, which makes it all worse.