The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will be desperate to end a two-game straight-up home losing streak on Saturday night when they host the struggling Stanford Cardinal.
It is tough to fault Notre Dame for its 10-3 loss in the driving rain at North Carolina State last weekend, but that defeat extended the squad's current run of futility to 2-6 SU, which started with a heartbreaking 38-36 loss at Stanford in last year's regular-season finale.
The Cardinal have also fallen on hard times, tallying just 22 total points in two straight SU losses to Washington and Washington State, ending a seven-game SU tear in which they were 6-1 against the spread.