SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- It had the neo-classic look of a Notre Dame Woe-ment.
You know the type. The Fighting Irish enter halftime in South Bend with a lead, often a double-digit lead. In the third and fourth quarters they fail to make a tackle here, commit a drive-sustaining or drive-killing penalty there. One play, two plays, even more that, at the time they occur, you say, "That may come back to haunt them."
And it usually has.
The ghosts of Notre Dame were once Gipp, Rockne and Leahy. In this millennium, they have been Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Connecticut. Saturday's game against the unranked Panthers had that same ghoulish look, that same macabre feel.
Except that on this day the Irish won, 23-17. Do you ascribe that outcome to the new man in charge, Brian Kelly, and the mood he is fostering? Or can you only toss a coin in the air so many times before it lands tails?
"We are really good at stubbing our toe, whether it be a penalty here or a drop there," said Kelly after the Irish moved their record to 3-3. "But that's us. So you're going to have to get used to it, because I'm trying to get used to it, or it's going to make me look really old real quick."
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