[JohnR34231]

Well, by my admittedly crude metric, Votre Dame's defense is roughly comparable to WSU's, and we struggled mightily against the Cougars (9 offensive points plus one pick six).

My hope rests in the belief that we can play better than that, and that we will get at least some of the injured players back.  But we had so many problems in that game that it is not clear how we are going to score in the 20's, which I think is the minimum we'll need to beat you guys.  Maybe if the D plays out of its mind.

I still picked us to win in the game (feel free to join), but that was a triumph of hope over experience.

BC

Yeah, I think any sane prediction of a Cardinal victory has to be based on the premise that we will play much, much better that we have in the last two weeks.
Will we? Well, I thought we would against the Cougs, so as you say if we do this week it will be the triumph of hope over experience.

[JohnR34231]

Well, by my admittedly crude metric, Votre Dame's defense is roughly comparable to WSU's, and we struggled mightily against the Cougars (9 offensive points plus one pick six).

My hope rests in the belief that we can play better than that, and that we will get at least some of the injured players back.  But we had so many problems in that game that it is not clear how we are going to score in the 20's, which I think is the minimum we'll need to beat you guys.  Maybe if the D plays out of its mind.

I still picked us to win in the game (feel free to join), but that was a triumph of hope over experience.

BC

Yeah, I think any sane prediction of a Cardinal victory has to be based on the premise that we will play much, much better that we have in the last two weeks.
Will we? Well, I thought we would against the Cougs, so as you say if we do this week it will be the triumph of hope over experience.