David Hale puts out his 138 QB room rankings and I am supposed to care where he slots us when we are fixin' to walk into South Bend for the first time since 1998. That game against Notre Dame back then was the kind of night that built programs, the kind of road win that made you believe. Now we are heading back there with a roster that has been churned over three times by the portal and a quarterback room that nobody outsde of Madison has seen take a real snap. I miss the days when you knew who your quarterback was gonna be two years before he started, when the depth chart meant something and you could name the backup's backup. But here we are in 2026 with a late Wednesday night kickoff at Notre Dame Stadium and I have no idea what we are going to look like. That used to be part of the fun now it just feels like a guessing game. The old bowl traditions and road trips meant more when the faces on the field stayed the same from September to December.