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Newsstand: ESPN projects Notre Dame football’s College Football Playoff opponent

Kyle Kellyby:Kyle Kelly•10/28/24•

ByKyleKelly

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The Notre Dame offense celebrates a touchdown against Navy on Oct. 26, 2024. (© Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

ESPN has the Notre Dame football program back in the College Football Playoff picture. On Sunday, ESPN writers Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach placed the Fighting Irish in the CFP in their updated bowl projections. 

Schlabach has a No. 11 Notre Dame team facing No. 6 Ohio State on the road, while Bonagura has a No. 9 Irish squad taking on No. 8 Texas in Austin. 

On Sunday, the AP Poll ranked Notre Dame as the No. 8 team in the nation. In that scenario, it would host No. 9 BYU (8-0) in the first round. The first official College Football Playoff rankings debut on Nov. 5. 

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Irish coach Marcus Freeman has a better record against ranked opponents than LSU coach and former ND coach Brian Kelly. 

The Notre Dame football X (formerly known as Twitter) account posted highlights of Saturday’s 51-14 win over Navy. 

The Irish passing attack has had better success at MetLife Stadium this season than the two NFL teams that play there: the New York Giants and New York Jets.  

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“It’s the preparation. We had … I don’t — I go back, and I look at that week of preparation, and I believe the physical part was efficient, but there’s a mental preparation of mindset you have to have going in every week. 

“That’s, to me, what I’ve learned as the head coach, our program has learned, and we got to take in that game, is there’s a mental approach. You better understand, if you don’t prepare the right way, you can lose anybody to play. And I don’t want to ever forget that.”

— Freeman on what the biggest lesson learned from the NIU game has been to this point and how much it fuels him to where they are sitting right now:

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