... forward to the future.

Before we start to look for the future coach of America's biggest college football team (Kirk Herbstreit's pronouncement on College Gameday that Notre Dame was an 'irrelevant' program was absolute rubbish—do you hear us talking this much about Al Groh, Steve Kragthorpe, or Bobby Bowden?), we'll look at the past.

Penn State faced Notre Dame during Charlie Weis' reign. Brady Quinn took them apart in South Bend in 2006, and Penn State returned the favour in front of the legendary 'White Out' crowd on a beautiful fall evening in 2007.

Notre Dame's record against USC was an 0-5 disaster, but the first game and final games of that series were incredibly close.

He ended the Irish's woeful bowl r...

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