Notre Dame at Texas: Predictions from Deep in the Heart of Texas

Offseason: over. Website redesign: live. Notre Dame season kickoff: imminent. Predictions for the game: NOW.

Y’all didn’t think we’d leave this out did you? Yes, it’s out a bit later than usual, but look, you get the entirety of today and most of tomorrow. You have plenty of time to mull this over.

This is your weekly chance to go head to head with the HLS staff and prove your Notre Dame clairvoyance is better than ours and make a joke here and there if you wish. Typically, I’d use this space to explain the rules, the scoring, and link our entry form, but you know what’s easier, just embedding the thing right here:

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HLS Staff Picks

Name	Winner	ND	Texas?	Prop	Thoughts
ndtex	Notre Dame	38	24	Malik Zaire	Zaire takes the first snap and leads ND on a quick TD drive, making this look like a repeat of 2015. Kizer follows with a TD drive of his own, but then everything stalls. The Tess Effect strikes in the second half and Texas charges back, giving everyone a heart attack and immediately calling for BK's head for daring to use a two-QB system. Thankfully the Irish outlast the young Lornhorn team and put together a fourth quarter and secures a comfortable victory.
Irish Elvis	Notre Dame	34	17	Malik Zaire	The 3.5 point spread will hold true for a good majority of the game. Our defense will not be able to hold an improved Texas team to just 3 points at home, and Texas' defense will not yield 38 points like last year's contest. Irish fans will be nervous at halftime (when are we not?), but if Brian Kelly #RTDB as he claims he will, the final tally will be all smiles.
SupermanTDJesus	Notre Dame	40	17	Malik Zaire	ND jumps out 10-0, Longhorns answer 10-7, play stalls for a bit, then ND hits the NAS button for a couple TDs and a pair of Yooners and goes up 30-10. Oh yeah, we're calling field goals "Yooners" now, so get with the program. Texas hangs on for a couple stops with the help of some ND screw ups and gets a TD 30-17. ND gets another Yooner for a 33-17 lead and closes with a junk-punching TD in the final 4 minutes, 40-17. We all somehow don't feel great about the win, against all logical reasoning.
tricerapops	Notre Dame	24	13	Malik Zaire	Messy start – runaway finish with UT scoring on some garbage time that makes us continue to fret about the defense.
andrewwinn	Notre Dame	20	17	Malik Zaire
Biscuit	Notre Dame	33	20		Texas wasn’t “Texas” last year. Still isn’t, but this is away, and they’re better than they were. And, frankly, we lost a ton. QB great, backfield great, OL decent but not better, WRs waaaaaay worse. TE the same but less depth. Kicking the same. D is likely about equal on the DL (maybe slightly lesser), LBs lesser, DBs should be better than they were but not gonna make up for the lesser crew up front. So yeah, that’s my deep analysis on the depth chart. Back to Texas. We’ll win. It’ll be tight through the half due to being Away, Sunday night, under the lights in TX. But we’ll pull away in the end of the 3rd, beginning of the 4th. THE SCORES WILL LIGHT, BIG AND BRIGHT, DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS. Frosh QB? General Rebuilding for the (kind)StrongMan? ND wins 33 – 20 Two leps because Texas!"