Being a Notre Dame fan sure isn’t easy. I’ve known this my entire life, but it’s times like this when it’s reinforced.
With Army breaking its 14-year losing streak versus Navy, the college football regular season is over. I’ve always loved bowl season. As a kid, bowls were like Christmas presents that came after the big day. That was also an era when your favorite team could move up several spots in the polls with a great bowl performance. The playoff has changed all of that. Rather that being excited last year about Notre Dame playing Ohio State, I kept thinking back to the failed two-point play at Clemson and the inability to close out Stanford.