Stanford vs. Notre Dame: Game Grades, Analysis for Irish

Notre Dame is now 2-5. Let that sink in for just a moment. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a preseason Top 10 team with College Football Playoff aspirations have now won just two of its first seven games.

Week after week, we sit back after the final whistle and try and digest what we just saw. After seven weeks of junk, we're getting a serious case of indigestion. There's no getting around it: Notre Dame is not good. More than that, Notre Dame is downright bad.

Yes, we'll pick apart all of the ups and downs of tonight's performance in a 17-10 loss to Stanford, just like we've done every week. But it's now time to start asking the hard questions.

First, though, let's deal with the play on the…