An expert football model that picks winners offers a new prediction for Notre Dame vs. Navy in this Week 9 college football game.

Both sides can agree that Navy no longer resembles the squad that got routed by Notre Dame in last season’s opener in Dublin, Ireland.

The deeper we get into the college football season, the more we are going to hyper focus on the playoffs, and project it in this chaotic landscape. In a recent projection from A to Z Sports, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish earned a spot in the field.