Sorry, couldn’t link it from BR’s Kerry Miller here’s a portion of it and a reprint,
“Most of that was rooted in ancient history, though, as Notre Dame has not won many noteworthy games since the early 1990s.
In the past quarter century, Notre Dame has spent a grand total of three weeks ranked No. 1 in the AP poll. This is going to be just the third time in those 25 years that the Fighting Irish finish a season ranked No. 8 or better. And in all three of those years, they got destroyed in the postseason.
Between the 2012 BCS Championship, the 2018 Cotton Bowl and the 2020 Rose Bowl, Notre Dame was outscored 103-31.
It's not just in bowl season, either.
Since the start of the 1999 season, Notre Dame has played 23 games against teams ranked in the AP Top Five. It went 2-21 in those games. The wins were a September 2005 victory over a third-ranked Michigan that went on to lose five games and finished unranked, and the double-overtime home victory over short-handed Clemson earlier this season.
At its best, Notre Dame can be clearly better than about 98 percent of other teams in the country.
Cracking that top 2 percent, though, has been an insurmountable climb.
And unless something changes on the recruiting front, that's going to remain the case for the foreseeable future.”
Link: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2137206138702/what-gives-for-notre-dame-after-another-college-football-playoff-blowout-loss