Despite the most dominant performance of the season, it is far from certain that Notre Dame is "locked in" to a playoff spot this year.
Notre Dame beat up on Syracuse this past Saturday with their most convincing win of the season. Without needing to re-cover all of the crazy stats, here is the SparkNotes version of Notre Dame's dominant win.
They went up 21-0 before the offense even took the field, scoring on a pair of interception return touchdowns and a blocked punt touchdown.