Head Coach Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame football program will finally open up the 2025 College Football season against the Miami Hurricanes this Sunday, August 31st. It has been a long offseason, and Fighting Irish fans from all over the country have been waiting anxiously for hopefully another deep playoff run.

In college football's playoff era, only five programs have notched perfect seasons en route to a national championship with Michigan being the most recent in 2023. But now, the parity playoff expansion has brought to the sport -- and the possibility of a team playing as many as 16 games on their way to the title game -- the likelihood of an unblemished campaign is considerably low.