Game Preview: Notre Dame at Texas

Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY SportsOne Foot Down previews this Sunday evening’s showdown in Austin between the Fighting Irish and the Longhorns

There are some Notre Dame football seasons when the scheduling gods (i.e. Savvy Jack Swarbrick and co.) decline to bestow very good opening games upon us as fans. Whether it’s Temple or Rice or Nevada or South Florida, oftentimes the first game of the Fighting Irish football season is either a boring blowout or a disastrous letdown.

Sometimes, though, the scheduling gods give us something magical. This year, as with last season, they’ve generously offered unto the fans a match-up between two programs of the bluest of blood, squaring off in prime time on…