I was given the opportunity to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and see the Razorbacks play on Saturday. Unfortunately that meant I didn’t get to watch Notre Dame play Michigan State. I recorded it on the DVR, but I haven’t yet felt like watching it and subsequently being in a bad mood for 24 hours. The loss to Kentucky by Arkansas was bad enough on Saturday night.

I did keep up with the score on my iPhone, and things seemed to be going the Irish way for a bit. But it was inevitable and Michigan State proceeded to thrash us just as everyone expected. Final score – 31 to 14 – Michigan State. For the first time in school history, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 0 – 4 and next week we play Purdue. Scary stuff indeed.

I did find it entertaining that the Michigan State Spartans made such a big deal out of this being a “revenge game” after their loss to Notre Dame in East Lansing last year. Note to the Spartans – this is not the same Irish team that mounted a massive fourth quarter comeback last year. In fact, you should not be proud of this win at all. We score twice as many touchdowns on you as we have all season for pete’s sake! In all seriousness, this win should not be a big deal – need for revenge or not.