Good morning! The big news from Tuesday is that Stanford coach David Shaw isn’t certain that star running back – and onetime Heisman hopeful – Christian McCaffrey will play on Saturday. Of course, he may be trolling Irish fans, who recognize their team’s chances of winning increase greatly without McCaffrey on the field. This headline and many more below.

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Notre Dame graduate, class of '02 (the Davie years!). A former newspaper and TV reporter, andrewwinn is now professionally involved in something far less fun to discuss than college football. A dad, a husband and a wannabe data nerd.





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