Yes, that Uncle Rico.
See, it's not that Notre Dame is bad, it's that it's best days appear to be behind it. They remember when they were the toast of college football. Which with the exception of a few years in the Joe Kuharich and Gerry Faust years was always the case until the hiring of Bob Davie. Since Bob Davie was hired no coach has had a higher winning percentage than any of the forebearers other than the two I named above.
This is who Notre Dame used to be:
That's letting up 38 points in a season, ND let up 35 points last week.
38 points in a season that featured games against four top 10 teams. By comparison last year Notre Dame played no teams in the top 10 at the time they played them and only two that finished the season ranked.
It could be argued that Notre Dame has a tougher schedule than most BCS teams, although I'm inclined to think that they'd struggle in any major conference. With such foes as Western Michigan, Tulsa and Army they're ferociously tearing up the college football scene. Last year they took a break from their annual winning of the Service Academy trophy by losing to Navy and not even playing Air Force. They're certainly not your Grandpa's Notre Dame team.
MSU has won 10 of the last 14 meetings, including a streak of six consecutive wins in South Bend from 1997-2007. The overall series stands at 46-32 and one tie that you may have heard of:
Our grandpa's Notre Dame and MSU fans would probably be having a conversation about when men were men and Notre Dame was a machine of magic that would fell it's enemies by twitching it's nose and thanking MSU for being Notre Dame's Florida Atlantic for so many years. But today, Rudy himself says it best. It's our time our time for beating up on poor Uncle Rico.
Tomorrow, we'll do the breakdown of the Irish and what that means for Saturday's game.
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