We’re in the home stretch until kickoff for the 2021 college football season, so that means it’s time to dig in and examine the 40 most interesting elements of the schedule:
1. Notre Dame’s schedule looks plenty challenging, with three opponents in the Sports Illustrated preseason top 10 and four in the top 13. But if you dig in a bit deeper to the way the schedule falls, it gets considerably harder.
A whopping five opponents have an open-date preparation/rest advantage over the Fighting Irish. Wisconsin is coming off an open date when it takes on Notre Dame at Soldier Field Sept.