It’s December, and fans of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are looking disappointedly at a less-than-full stocking. A good-not-great, ultimately disappointing season has yielded an underwhelming matchup in a matinee bowl game with a ridiculous name.
The year? 2019. What year did you think I was talking about?
In all seriousness, the similarities between this December and that year’s make it a little nostalgic for me. My first article as a staff writer here reflected on Notre Dame’s disappointing bowl placement and made semi-serious attempts to find bright spots about it.