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Dec. 2, 2013 Issue

Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football

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Game Preview: Stanford David Shaw directed Stanford to its first Rose Bowl victory in more than 40 years last season, and he is one of four individuals to lead a team to back-to-back BCS bowls in their first two seasons as a college head coach. photo courtesy stanford Each of Notre Dame's final three regular-season opponents this season — Pitt, Brigham Young and Stanford — appeared to have the Irish beaten last year, only to see the Fighting Irish stage their game-winning rally in the fourth quarter, and in the cases of Pitt and Stanford, in overtime. Cal might be bad enough this year where Stanford does not have to be at its best to still emerge victorious, and still have enough left over for Notre Dame. And what of the Irish? Since the Jan. 7 BCS National Championship Game loss, the program has suffered major attrition via graduation, academics (Everett Golson) and a plethora of injuries on defense, most recently season-ending surgery to its anchor, Louis Nix III at nose guard. Notre Dame has become a shell of the program it was last year at this time, and with BCS aspirations eliminated earlier this month, how hungry it will remain, or how much is left in its emotional reservoir after a letdown season, might be in question.

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