PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 30: John Shannon #54 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish celebrates after he recovered a dropped punt by the Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium on November 30, 2019 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
The Notre Dame football program hasn’t instilled a lot of fear in its opponents in recent years. It’s time for the Irish to change that.
After a lackluster start against a middling Duke team, there was a tenseness coming from Notre Dame football fans towards the program. It was never that fans didn’t trust the team to win the games they’re supposed to win.