9-3 and the grace of Touchdown Jesus will keep the Notre Dame Fighting Irish within the national spotlight and keep Charlie Weis fully employed when the 2009 College Football Season closes up shop in January.
That's Notre Dame realism.
Notre Dame has had some national buzz. NBC.com recently offered up a scenario in which ND could go undefeated. Numerous preseason magazines have tapped them as dark horse national title contenders. Rivals has them as a preseason number 23.
But let's get real. It's time to separate stone cold fact from hyper-inflated fiction in five short preseason headlines without nauseating overkill stories on Jimmy Clausen, the ND wide receivers, and Charlie Weis...
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