The Notre Dame Leprechaun leads the team onto the field before a NCAA college football game between Notre Dame and Louisville at Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in South Bend. / MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

While you may have been expecting the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team to just have its focus on this weekends game against the Stanford Cardinal, it is the wrong assessment. During head coach Marcus Freeman’s Monday press conference,

Notre Dame and Stanford met for the first time when Knute Rockne and the famed Four Horsemen traveled West to take on Pop Warner ’s Stanford Cardinal in the 1925 Rose Bowl. After only playing a few times over the next six decades, the series resumed in 1988 and since then, Notre Dame and Stanford have played each year except 1995, 1996, and 2020.