A (totally definitive) ranking of every Notre Dame football game from Marcus Freeman’s three* years a head coach. Onward.
43. 2024: Northern Illinois 16, Notre Dame 14
In the moment this felt like time was a flat circle and ]Freeman had made zero tangible progress as a head coach. Notre Dame had zero passing touchdowns through two games and was pulling the same stunts as in Freeman’s first year against Marshall and Stanford. Nothing should ever be worse than this, and if it is then it will take this game’s title of “worst loss in program history.