Brian Kelly's teams usually win coming off the bye. Looking at his teams' performances after a week with no game, a pretty standard definition of a "bye week," and going back to the 2004 season, Kelly is 8-3 overall, and 2-1 since coming to Notre Dame. Taking a bit of the shine off the Dome, as it were, his 2011 loss to USC was one for the ages and one in which there was plenty of blame to be passed around coaches and players. In short, while his teams usually win, and win convincingly, after a ...
