I vote YES.
Reasons why:
1-- The most talent of any Irish team in recent memory. Great competition for playing time.
2-- An experienced gunslinger (accurate like Doc Holliday) at QB--Jack Coan
with two automatic superstar Offensive players in Michael Mayer and Kyren Williams to bail him out.
3--The deepest D-LINE in the country. Better than any SEC Dline.
4-- Superstar Kyle Hamilton at Safety.
5-- One of the best Olines in the Nation with talent and two ultra experienced lineman in Jarret Patterson and Cain Madden to complement Superstud Blake Fisher.
6-- Marcus Freeman !!!!
7- No weak spots at linebacker with Prince Kollie (Lawrence Taylor JR.) to come in and increse his reps as he WOW's us with GREAT plays !
*** I could go on and on but won't. The Irish have a GREAT strength coach and great position coaches and a GREAT D-coach who will show a more aggressive ball hawking defense. I expect many more turnovers created by our defense this year !
*** The Irish have a tough schedule to challenge them almost every Saturday but the Irish should be favored in every game.
Go IRISH !! Lets get this party started !!
Beat the seminoles !!
First, no one knows what will happen in the next 5 minutes let alone within any longer time frame.
Second, wishing doesn’t make it so. Either with predictions or anything else.
That said, some coefficient-free
PROBABILITIES on not just the team’s performance but also related issues as pertains to board views, the season, the experience:
ND will both win and lose a number of games.
Ties, which can still occur due to weather suspensions, are unlikely.
ND will beat the point spread at least once.
A number of key players will get injured.
Other players will get injured.
Players on opposing teams – key and otherwise – will get injured.
Kevin Austin may get injured.
A certain number of players will, for various non-injury related issues, leave the team.
There may be COVID-related issues.
There will be penalties.
There will be missed field goals.
Players will lose both their cool and their helmets.
People will fret over ND’s secondary.
People will both praise and criticize the color shades of ND’s uniforms.
After Jack Coan’s first interception and/or ND’s first loss, there will be calls to replace him.
Players no one was counting on will do well.
Players everyone expected great things from will not deliver.
People will praise the ND TV announcers.
People will denigrate the ND TV announcers.
At different times, those praising and those denigrating will be the same people.
Responses to the announcers will be closely correlated to ND’s individual game performances.
Most of the game day predictions will be lopsided in ND’s favor and contain unrealistic point spreads.
Few will pick against ND in any game unless it starts losing regularly.
There will be instances of bad officiating.
Bad officiating will be blamed for any number of bad outcomes.
Brian Kelly will occasionally lose it.
There will be numerous TV close-ups of Marcus Freeman and Tommy Rees.
The band will perform at halftime during home games.
The team will sing the ND alma mater after home games.
A number of players will cry on Senior Day.
Because of TV timeouts, games, particularly at home, will be drawn out affairs.
Bodi will predict resounding victories every week.