Grantland Rice famously once wrote, “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden.”
Notre Dame, once again, will play in the New York area under a blue-gray New York area sky in October, but this time, the orange of the opponent serves as a reminder that the sun may be setting on the season if the Notre Dame Fighting Irish fail to get a victory.
The forecast as predicted by Accuweather on Saturday calls for a gloomy day.