Notre Dame has not done itself favors with its schedules in recent years. Just last year, Notre Dame sacrificed a home game for a cash grab at Yankee Stadium and made its team travel all over the US in November. That is not the case this season – especially this weekend when some strategic scheduling (maybe it was luck) has Notre Dame set up perfectly for their trip to Ann Arbor, where they are hoping to reverse some years of bad luck in the Big House.
This year’s schedule has a well-placed bye week in between Notre Dame’s last game – two weeks ago against USC – and this weekend’s trip north to Ann Arbor.