Notre Dame is back in the national championship game for the first time in a dozen years and things couldn't be more different this time around. For conversation's sake I limited this to only being five things that are different this time around,

Between Touchdown Jesus, “Win One for the Gipper,” Rudy, and, yes, even the forward pass, there are those who believe football wouldn’t quite be football without Notre Dame.

Notre Dame doesn't have a chance, right? There's a reason those win probability analytics are so dumb. Everyone always has a chance to win. You actually have to play the game instead of paying attention to some arbitrary numbers.