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Notre Dame football: Irish should have no issues against Navy

By Daniel Morrison

SAN DIEGO, CA - OCTOBER 27: SDCCU stadium filed during the opening ceremony and national anthem singing prior to the 92nd playing between the Navy Midshipmen and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at SDCCU Stadium on October 27, 2018 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kent Horner/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO, CA - OCTOBER 27: SDCCU stadium filed during the opening ceremony and national anthem singing prior to the 92nd playing between the Navy Midshipmen and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at SDCCU Stadium on October 27, 2018 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kent Horner/Getty Images) /
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SOUTH BEND, IN – NOVEMBER 18: Zach Abey #9 of the Navy Midshipmen is hit by Greer Martini #48 and Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa #95 of the Notre Dame Football h at Notre Dame Stadium on November 18, 2017, in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, IN – NOVEMBER 18: Zach Abey #9 of the Navy Midshipmen is hit by Greer Martini #48 and Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa #95 of the Notre Dame Football h at Notre Dame Stadium on November 18, 2017, in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /

The Notre Dame football team takes on Navy inside Notre Dame Stadium this season in a game that should be no trouble for the Irish.

Navy and Notre Dame football is one of the great traditional rivalries in all of college football. It’s also one of the most lopsided, with Notre Dame holding a 77-13-1 record against the Midshipmen. Still, in recent years, it’s been more competitive, with the Midshipmen winning four times since they snapped their 43-game losing streak in 2007.

Unfortunately, this game couldn’t be played last season as planned, as a Week 0 game in Dublin, and instead was canceled due to the pandemic. It’s back this season, though, set to take place in South Bend and it will be good for fans to get this friendly rivalry back.

Navy does have a lot of issues that they’re working to correct from last season to this one, but Ken Niumatalolo is a great head coach and he has every capability of fixing those problems in one season with a different approach than they took last season. It’s all about reinventing yourself and finding new ways to develop the team around you. He’s done it before, and who is to say he can’t do it again?

Year in and year out, Navy is one of the hardest teams to judge. So, what do we know about the Midshipmen in 2021?

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