The School: The University of Notre Dame
Record: 2-0. Congratulations on beating Michigan, one of the few teams in this universe as bad at winning road games as Vanderbilt. Normally that would be sarcasm, but Jim Harbaugh schadenfreude is beginning to approach University of Tennessee schadenfreude as “things that warm my cold, dead heart.”
Ranking: No. 8 in the AP Top 25 and Coaches’ Poll. S&P+ has Notre Dame ranked 17th in nation and Vanderbilt ranked 23rd, which means we’ll be using S&P+ ratings from now on and the Real Time RPI never again.