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There are sports reporters and TV talk-show hosts still star-struck over Notre Dame’s football program. Wake up!

The Irish program no longer compares with the likes of Florida State, half the Big Ten or the SEC, for that matter. Oh, we hear about how tough this year’s schedule is, but four of the first five games are at home, and if they beat Stanford they’ll be 3-2. If they played four of those five on the road they could be 0-5 or 1-4 at best, and one of your reporters still voted them No. 21.