Saturday will mark the 10th time a Brian Kelly-coached Notre Dame team will take on Stanford. His record against Stanford is an uninspiring 2-6 (1 win vacated). Neither of those two wins have been away from South Bend.
If there was ever a year to end a long string of futility, it would be this season. Stanford is struggling worse than any season since the early Jim Harbaugh years. On the other side, Notre Dame is looking to finish the regular season with double digits, and clearly has the superior athletes.
Winning at Stanford would be a huge monkey off Kelly’s back, and would help keep hope alive of an Orange Bowl bid for the Irish.