Is Notre Dame For Real?

Now that my beloved Wisconsin Badgers football team is going down the crapper this season, I have to pick another favorite college football team and this year it is Notre Dame.
they are undefeated at 8-0 and today traveled to Oklahoma and laid down a smackdown to the Sooners, 30-13.
From the Chicago Sun Times: It all changes now for Notre Dame. Saturday night’s defining 30-13 victory over Oklahoma — no, at Oklahoma — speeds everything up. It’s no longer about wondering if Everett Golson is ready to handle being the quarterback at Notre Dame; it’s about wondering just how good he can be. It’s no longer about avoiding the noise; it’s about making a lot of it. And it’s no longer about going to a BCS bowl game; it’s about going to the BCS bowl game — the national championship game.

Golson, Notre Dame’s beleaguered redshirt freshman quarterback, coming off a concussion that forced him to sit out last week, took command of the huddle with nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter. The record crowd of 86,031 at Memorial Stadium was shaking down its own thunder after the Sooners’ dormant offense woke up and tied the game 13-13 on Blake Bell’s one-yard touchdown run — the first rushing touchdown surrendered by Notre Dame all season. But Golson, who admitted to succumbing to the pressure at home against Michigan, a game in which he was yanked in the second quarter, came into his own on the next drive.  

His beautiful 50-yard pass to Chris Brown over the top set the Irish up at the Oklahoma 15. And after stalling out in the red zone all day — heck, all season — Golson hit Theo Riddick and Tyler Eifert to set up third-and-goal from the 1, then shoved his way into the end zone, shoving Notre Dame into the national championship conversation.

It’s a shocking development. Shocking because the Irish (8-0) entered the season facing an unbeatable schedule with a presumably beatable secondary and a rookie quarterback. Shocking because the Irish entered this game as 11-point underdogs, nothing more than high-profile fodder for Oklahoma’s offensive threshing machine. And shocking because, well, the Irish looked absolutely overmatched early on.  http://www.suntimes.com/16004334-761/notre-dame-beats-oklahoma-30-13-to-improve-to-8-0.html

They have a pretty good chance in having a perfect season as their next opponents are Pittsburgh, Boston College, Wake Forest and USC.

It's nice to see the Fighting Irish have a very good season so far,