With the Notre Dame football team ranked No. 13 in the latest AP Top 25 and No. 15 in the coaches poll, the Irish are moving right back into "solidly in" for the College Football Playoffs. In fact, it's not even that they might get in. At this point, Marcus Freeman and company are not even in doubt, at least according to the latest projections from one publication.
For the second straight year, there were plenty of people who thought the Fighting Irish were dead in the water after their second game of the season.