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Notre Dame football: 3 home games Irish fans won’t want to miss in 2021

By Brad Weiss

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - NOVEMBER 07: Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly is interviewed by ESPN College Gameday hosts Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor during a live broadcast from Notre Dame Stadium before the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Clemson Tigers on November 7, 2020 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Matt Cashore-Pool/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - NOVEMBER 07: Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly is interviewed by ESPN College Gameday hosts Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor during a live broadcast from Notre Dame Stadium before the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Clemson Tigers on November 7, 2020 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Matt Cashore-Pool/Getty Images) /
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Oct 3, 2020; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Bearcats assistant coach Marcus Freeman during pregame between the Cincinnati Bearcats and the South Florida Bulls at Nippert Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joseph Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports /

Notre Dame football: 3 home games Irish fans won’t want to miss in 2021

No. 2: Cincinnati Bearcats

In the fifth game of the season, the Notre Dame football team will welcome the Cincinnati Bearcats to Notre Dame Stadium in a game with more than enough storylines. Not only will the Bearcats be one of the better Group of 5 teams in the country this season, but they also will challenge for a College Football Playoff spot.

To do so, they will have to go through the Irish, as well as their former head coach in Brian Kelly, and their recent defensive coordinator in Marcus Freeman. This is going to be a monster game for Freeman, though, as he helped build Cincinnati into a national power, and will now have to face the kids he recruited in his first season at Notre Dame.

You can expect the fan base to be behind Freeman in a big way in the game, showing him the kind of love that will reiterate why he left Cincinnati for South Bend in the first place. Oh year, this is also going to be an exciting matchup, as the Bearcats have an elite quarterback in Desmond Ridder and a punishing defense that nearly beat Georgia in their bowl game last year.

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