It hardly seems like enough time has passed for football to start again, but here we are. There are so many questions for a Notre Dame lineup that will feature some new faces and some old faces in new and/or bigger roles. At the same time there’s an unmistakable buzz coming out of training camp reports, even from some of the more usually dour sources, that a standard amount of preseason optimism has come to the forefront despite the preponderance of neophytes in the two-deep. You can only throw around so many statements like “SEC size,” “fastest Notre Dame team I’ve seen,” “deepest linebacker group I’ve covered” without ginning up a fair amount of fervor.

Nonetheless, the questions about this team are fairly well established and fairly reasonable to ask. I’m fairly confident that this will be a good year, based on the floor the program has set over the last four seasons. Will it be a great year? I don’t know. Will it be a very good year? I don’t know. Will it be an exceptional year? Probably not, but I wouldn’t rule it out! The apparent broad variance in potential season outcomes makes the prediction business a tricky but perhaps more entertaining exercise.

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