3 expectations for Notre Dame Football’s 2024 season

Indeed, the hope is the best part of college football. To folks of Notre Dame, not to mention its football fans, ‘hope’ remains to this day the key for each seasons supporting the team — in light of courses of the incongruent record in 30 years.

Consider what I just said for a while. This very hope of ours goes on tugging at our expectations year after year. As a fan I can comprehend how and when we end up there almost every year, but if one is absolutely truthful, it does make it rather had to engage in precise prognostications about the possibilities of the season.

But also. . . who gives a shit? This is college football and we can be as reckless as we wish to be. Just do what you want to do and if you no longer like it then it’s perfectly okay for you to fall in a hole of dismay and suffering. Choose your own adventure.

I thought that in that spirit I can make some expectations which, of course, is my way of saying that I am going to make some predictions. I shall make this a rather short post and let out only three of them today.

The line of offense is going to suffer in College Station.

In this season, I have a lot of fears starting from the first game. It is somewhat unclear with a position group that Notre Dame wants to have a pillar every year. Specifically, there are graduates from the tackle position Joe Alt and Blake Fisher in the NFL and the transfer of center Zeke Correll. Good talent will step in and despite great coaching loses, one of the biggest positive for the Texas A&M Aggies will be the defensive front and a Mike Elko up their rear. I don’t foresee failure, but I sure know it will be a day of hard work as the wires will literally be ‘bitten’ — and this will keep the game interesting and in the very tight margin.

Keeping the hardware.

All of the rivalry trophies are in the Notre Dame possession, and they should retain the three that are presently at stake this year (Purdue Boilermakers – Shillelagh Trophy, Stanford Cardinal – Legends Trophy, and USC Trojans – Jeweled Shillelagh).

Fighting for position.

The suspense is killing me — but yes, I do believe Notre Dame will indeed have a perfect season and be 12-0. This team has the easiest schedule imaginable and I think with a great defense to go with a serious output creator in Mike Denbrock, they should subdue every team ahead of them. I however expect a fight for the fifth seed current held by Oklahoma City Thunder or if you prefer, 5OT. Before you hand wank that away, there are several scenarios that I could see being an issue (like a 12-1 SEC runner up for example). At that point ND’s weak schedule could become a real problem. So one can easily find that a 5 seed and a 6 seed could easily be the contrasting of the likes of Ole Miss and Air Force.