In those 10 win seasons, how many of those teams that Notre Dame beat had anywhere near the number of 4 star athletes that Notre Dame had? USC maybe? Clemson minus Trevor Lawrence? How many of the following teams did Notre Dame struggle with? Louisville, Vanderbilt, Ball St., Northwestern, Duke, Toledo..... How many more teams where the talent level was this wide do I need to mention? Did Notre look like they were well prepared to play any of these teams?? They got by on their talent. How prepared and motivated did they look in games against teams like Michigan and Miami where the talent level was equal? Then let's get to those CFP games where they were challenged talent wise? Alabama and Clemson dominated Notre Dame much more handily than Notre Dame did against any of the teams where they had more talent.