With August 31st’s season-opening loss at No. 10 Miami, the Fighting Irish have now failed to escape September without a loss in each of the last four seasons. It’s a pattern that began in head coach Marcus Freeman’s first season, when the Irish dropped their first game of 2022 at Ohio State.

While the No. 7 Texas Longhorns face what looks to be an easy day at the office against UTEP, the Texas A&M Aggies travel to South Bend for a top-25 showdown with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

It's been nine years since that happened in 2016, which was Kirby Smart's maiden run as Georgia's HC, and it took some kind of magic for UT to survive that one between the hedges as a pair of Hail Ma...