It’s still a thing
#12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (6-1) VS #24 Navy Midshipmen (6-0)
We have finally arrived at the point in the Notre Dame football schedule where a debt must be paid to the football gods. If you save me the “know your history” bullshit, I’ll save you the “here’s the real history” lesson. None of it really matters as the Irish will play the annual Wookie Life Debt game against Navy on Saturday.
Navy is having an excellent season so far, and are now ranked in the AP Top 25. At 6-0, the Middies have pretty much dominated their schedule so far — but it’s not exactly a schedule that holds much strength.
Notre Dame is still trying to make amends for an early season loss to Northern Illinois, and while no blowout win over a service academy will correct losing to a MAC school — winning comfortably still keeps the Irish in a good position going into the bye week right before the release of the first College Football Playoff rankings.
This game can’t help, but it can hurt quite a bit.
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