As the Irish find themselves 3-0 for the first time in a decade, the title of this post is definitely the question on the mind of any Notre Dame football fan. After all, we've been conditioned for disappointment after all these years. With this question in mind, I wanted to examine the past performances and compare them to this year. For this exercise, I focused on something that came up in one of Brian Kelly's pressers last season. In it, he mentioned that gaining loads of yards was ...

As Notre Dame lined up against Navy, were they setting a new tone for 2012?