The staff at Fighting Irish Wire look into their crystal ball and predict if Notre Dame will make the College Football Playoff in 2025.

Notre Dame sits at 0-2 and a long way from a potential College Football Playoff berth, but a date with Purdue could be just what is needed this weekend.

Preview the Sept. 20 matchup between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Purdue Boilermakers with predictions, odds, over/under, spread, betting lines and more.

Some playoff contenders stepped up in Week 3 of the college football season and others fell back in this week's bowl projections.

The Big Ten lost both its P4 noncon games in Week 3, with Wisconsin falling to Alabama 38-14 and Minnesota losing 27-14 on the West Coast against Cal. The losses drop the league to 5-5 in such games, and to 1-2 against the SEC, which could matter a lot come selection Sunday.

Notre Dame is off to an 0-2 start, but it's not quite time to count it out of the race to the College Football Playoff.

On his Always College Football podcast, college football analyst Greg McElroy says the Fighting Irish have been unlucky over their first two weeks of the season.

Notre Dame's first two games of the 2025 season haven't gone as planned. First, it was a heartbreaker at Miami with the Hurricanes kicking a long field goal to take the lead with just over a minute to play.