When Notre Dame football lost at home to Northern Illinois, its path to the College Football Playoff got much thinner. After this weekend’s lackluster performance against Miami (OH) coupled with the Huskies overtime loss to Buffalo,

College football analyst Joel Klatt joined Colin Cowherd on "The Herd" and discussed the upcoming Big Ten clash between USC and Michigan with both teams ranked in the top 25. However, Klatt mentioned Michigan as undergoing an "identity crisis."

Another home game against a team from the Mid-American Conference should be an easy home game for Notre Dame, except for what happened first time out

To take it a step further, most of those teams are elite or at least very good at throwing the ball and running it. Notre Dame is elite at running it and maybe one of the worst in