Tag: Notre Dame vs. Texas

Not only can there be a dramatic change in a team’s personality/demeanor after just one year, it can happen in just one week …. Adding to the degree of difficulty is the home field. … the Longhorns, who finished 5-7 last year, are only 3.5-point underdogs at home after losing by 35 at Notre Dame in 2015 …. other factors …  It is the first time the Irish are opening a season at the other team’s campus site since 2006. … [having] generally struggled the past decade in its initial road trip to an on-campus site …. BradPowersSports.com: ‘Notre Dame is 0-8 straight up the last three years in true road games … when … favored by less than a TD or an underdog.’ … The past has zero bearing on any present game. Nevertheless, it can provide some extra juice to any contest. It might in Austin ….

Neither program plans to reveal its starting quarterback until their respective units take the field …. The Fighting Irish also will be debuting a new receiving corps and rebuilt offensive line. … How will three new Irish starters in the secondary, and a new middle linebacker, hold up against the fast-break [Texas] attack? … For the Longhorns, how motivated are they by last year’s 38-3 whooping in South Bend? Or by head coach Charlie Strong’s potential job insecurity?