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Notre Dame Schedule Analysis - Quarter 1 Breakdown

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Football, Sports, Big Ten, Notre Dame, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The IB team kicks off a quarter-by-quarter schedule breakdown by examining the first three games and the key storylines surrounding each matchup.

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0:00.0

Brian, let's dive into Q1 here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to by our friends over at Fanduel.

0:24.9

And when we start talking about Q1, this is an interesting start to the season for Notre Dame.

0:29.5

It is basically a polar opposite from what they did last year, starting it out against two playoff teams.

0:34.6

And they started out on a Sunday at Lambeau Field against

0:38.2

Wisconsin. And then they got a short week. They're at home the next week against Rice at home. And then they have a night game against Michigan State at home as well. So we're talking about a Q1 that has two night games in it. Now, Q1 last year did, but the outlook of the opponents is a little bit different.

0:53.8

Yeah.

0:54.1

Two one's going to be interesting this year.

0:55.5

Night games against Miami and Texas A the opponents is a little bit different. Yeah.

0:55.5

Two one's going to be interesting this year.

1:02.5

Night games against Miami and Texas A&M are a little bit different than night games against Rice and, I mean, Wisconsin and Michigan State.

1:06.4

But I'm glad that Michigan State game is at night.

1:15.5

I know I'm in the minority here, but I feel like Notre Dame needs a reset of the last time they played in Notre Dame Stadium, which was 2016.

1:22.1

That's the last time Michigan State has been in Notre Dame Stadium, which is crazy to think that's been a decade since they've been played in Notre Dame Stadium. Because the last time they played period was 2017, and that was in East Lansing.

1:26.7

But if you remember that they, Notre Dame lost that game and got beat convincingly.

1:31.5

Like they came back late to make an eight-point game, but Michigan State dominated that

1:35.4

football game. And Michigan State was worse than Notre Dame was that year.

1:38.8

There were three and nine. And so definitely a little bit of a rematch.

1:43.8

And you see here, you look at the projected win odds,

1:48.9

the win numbers for, not odds, but the betting numbers,

1:52.3

Trev, what are they called?

1:53.4

The over under win totals.

1:56.0

Yeah, Wisconsin at six and a half, Rice, they only do power four,

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