When Notre Dame football lost at home to Northern Illinois, its path to the College Football Playoff got much thinner. After this weekend’s lackluster performance against Miami (OH) coupled with the Huskies overtime loss to Buffalo,

Another home game against a team from the Mid-American Conference should be an easy home game for Notre Dame, except for what happened first time out

To take it a step further, most of those teams are elite or at least very good at throwing the ball and running it. Notre Dame is elite at running it and maybe one of the worst in