Friday\u2019s are also built for options. How about a triple option?<\/p>\n
SMU TAKEOVER?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to be really honest here\u2026 I\u2019m absolutely bamboozled by a tweet by some dude named Scoot McGee (no, I have no idea who is \u2014 nor should I). According to this man, who ranked being a \u201cDallas Insider\u201d like four spots above his family in his X bio, Notre Dame is in for a real surprise when SMU comes to South Bend in the middle of November for a 7:30 game.<\/p>\n
Are we being serious here? Has SMU taken over ANY opposing stadium over the past 50 years? Don\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 I love the enthusiasm and I really love the optimism. This kind of confidence suggests that SMU thinks they\u2019ll be pretty highly ranked, which feels like a fun night under the Golden Dome.<\/p>\n
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C\u2019mon Scoot \u2014 get serious (can a man named \u201cScoot\u201d ever be serious though?).<\/p>\n
DOES MARCUS FREEMAN NEED TO SIGN A BLOOD OATH?<\/p>\n
Despite Marcus Freeman being very public about his desire to stay at Notre Dame in the future and not skip away to the NFL, some people aren\u2019t buying it. At this point I\u2019m not sure Freeman can say anything more (nor should he) and we\u2019re just going to have to accept it without breaking out some wild dark magic binding spell.<\/p>\n
BE GRATEFUL?<\/p>\n
As someone who openly complains about the lack of nooners on Notre Dame\u2019s schedule every year (hey y\u2019all \u2014 I love a good nooner here and there with the right one) I want to make sure you are thankful for Notre Dame\u2019s NBC deal. Ohio State, for example, has been a program that has had to suffer through nooners in big time matchups, and more. Their fans are getting more and more restless about the lack of a good night game (or any night game).<\/p>\n
A REALLY BIG DATE<\/p>\n
I think things (at least in the preseason) are starting to pinpoint the Notre Dame vs Miami matchup as one of the biggest games of the year. The thing is though, it\u2019s going to be a massive day all over the country. If Notre Dame puts on a real show on a day like this \u2014 well it\u2019s going to be fun. Like it\u2019s going to be really fun. It\u2019s still hard to predict where College Gameday might be on this day, but I still think it will end up being at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday\u2019s are also built for options. How about a triple option? SMU TAKEOVER? I\u2019m going to be really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,7801,49,48,1401,4732,57306,1685,5041],"class_list":{"0":"post-885535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-marcus-freeman","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-notre-dame","13":"tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","14":"tag-notre-dame-stadium","15":"tag-smu","16":"tag-temple-owls"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116537764368493520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}