Notre Dame moves up in ESPN’s Football Power Index after Purdue blowout

While both major polls, the US LMB Coaches Poll and the AP Poll didn’t move Notre Dame much, ESPN did.

Their Football Power Index was updated following Week 3’s slate of games, and the Irish made a move from No. 10 up to No. 7 following the dismantling of Purdue. They jumped Penn State, and Missouri, while other teams around them did make a drop as well.

Looking across the country, Texas held onto its top ranking, while

jumped Georgia to make it into the top-4.

Notre Dame showed that they could put up plenty of points on offense, while its stout defense came to play against a more than solid Purdue attack.

Looking further into the data, ESPN gives the Irish a 22.8% chance to win out, and a 37.2% to make the college football playoff. There was a 14.6 percentage point increase from last week to this for Notre Dame to make the CFP.

If ESPN is correct in its projections, the Irish are looking at a much better situation than they were in a week ago.

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