Last season Notre Dame was lead by Ian Book who finished the season throwing for 3,034 yards and 34 touchdowns. The Fighting Irish will get Book back this season which is going to be a great help for the offense. 

The big issue for Notre Dame is they lost a lot of pass catchers from last season. Gone are Chase Claypool, Chris Finke, and Cole Kmet.who were leaned on heavily. Coming out of the backfield there also seems to be some questions that need to be answered. 

Notre Dame’s defense should be good in 2020, but they do need to find a shutdown corner to take the defense to the next level. 

2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Schedule 

Day, Date                         Opponent

Saturday, August 29          Navy (Ireland)

Saturday, September 5      OPEN

Saturday, September 12    Arkansas 

Saturday, September 19    Western Michigan 

Saturday, September 26    Wake Forest 

Saturday, October 3          Wisconsin 

Saturday, October 10        Stanford 

Saturday, October 17        at Pittsburgh 

Saturday, October 24        OPEN 

Saturday, October 31        Duke  

Saturday, November 7      Clemson  

Saturday, November 14     at Georgia Tech 

Saturday, November 21     Louisville 

Saturday, November 28     at USC

Pick: Notre Dame’s win total is set at 9, and that number is too high. The offense has a lot of questions outside of Book, and that is going to hurt them. Notre Dame will get out to a fast start to the season but after Wake Forest on September 26th it’s going to be tough, There are no easy games in the second half of the season, and it wouldn’t be shocking to see them losing three or four games in a row. Notre Dame will win eight games, which will keep them under the total.