Notre Dame's best season under Freeman came in 2024 when the Irish finished the regular season at 11-1, rattling off 10 straight wins after losing at home to Northern Illinois, before ultimately losing in the national championship game to Ohio State.That campaign was unquestionably great and very respectable, but when you peel back the curtain and focus solely on the regular season, not even 2024 could be labeled impressive.On the heels of the Irish losing on the road to BYU in Week 7, the team's first noteworthy opponent of the season, Notre Dame has been in the crosshairs yet again as a program that simply can not win the rare meaningful game it actually schedules during the regular season, and it turns out that there is some very real legitimacy behind that idea.Notre Dame Fighting Irish Head Coach Marcus Freeman prior to a college football game between the Stanford Cardinal and Notre Dame Fighting Irish on October 10, 2026 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, IN.
(Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)COLLEGE FOOTBALL FACES ANOTHER CLOCK CONTROVERSY AFTER BYU UPSETS NOTRE DAMEChris 'The Bear' Fallica of Fox Sports did some digging into Notre Dame's record under Freeman to find out if the narrative about the Fighting Irish was as bad as some in the college football world have made it out to be, and the numbers paint quite the picture.Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman prior to a college football game between the Syracuse Orange and Notre Dame Fighting Irish on November 22, 2025 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, IN.(Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.
DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Notre Dame has won 16 games dating back to the start of the 2025 season, and according to Fallica's findings, those 16 teams have posted a combined record of 62-91 against FB...