Notre Dame football: Irish history against the Ohio State Buckeyes
By Brad Weiss
The Notre Dame football team will take on the Ohio State Buckeyes in Week 1 of the college football season, and here is the history between the two schools.
In Week 1 of the 2022 college football season, Marcus Freeman and his Notre Dame football team will head to Ohio to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. A preseason favorite to go to the College Football Playoff, the Buckeyes are manned with some of the best talent in the country, including a possible Heisman trophy winner in CJ Stroud.
Despite losing a ton of weapons on offense, including two first-round wide receivers, there should be no stopping this Ohio State juggernaut led by Stroud. However, the Notre Dame football team should be elite on defense in 2022, so if anybody is going to give them trouble, it will be the Irish.
Most big-time programs like to get their season started with cupcakes, but for both Ohio State and Notre Dame, this has the potential to be one of the best games of the regular season. These schools have met before, and it has been a long time since Notre Dame football has come out on top.
Notre Dame football history against Ohio State
The Fighting Irish have taken on the Buckeyes six times in their history, and at the beginning, it was all Notre Dame. However, the Irish have not beaten the Buckeyes since a 7-2 victory back on Halloween in 1936.
Since the 1995 season, Ohio State and Notre Dame have met four times, and all four have gone to the Buckeyes. In 2006 and 2016, the two schools met up in the Fiesta Bowl, with the Buckeyes winning by 14 and 16 points, respectively.
Of course, history does not mean much when schools do not play every year and have only played six times in the last 90 years. Notre Dame football has as good a chance of any team on the Ohio State schedule to beat them, but if we are going just by the history of these schools, it could be a big Buckeyes win.
We will have to wait and see.