Notre Dame Bowl record from 1994 - present: 2-10
Wins were against Hawaii in the 2008 Hawaii Bowl and Miami in the 2010 Sun Bowl.
It’s not just that there are ND haters, it’s that ND has way under-performed in the post season for many, many years.
Since 1994, ND is 0-5 in BCS bowl games; and were dominated in every one of them with the exception 1995 Orange Bowl.
My favorite was when Oregon State destroyed ND 41-9; and it could have been much worse.
Times change. Tell that to Michigan, Stanford, Miami, Oklahoma . . . The fact remains that their record is better than KSU’s.
You have made my point very concisely, in many of those bowl games Notre Dame played opponents that were much stronger than they were. This is an example of how stupid the bowl game system is, it’s not about the best match-up, it’s about TV ratings. For example, the 1995 Fiesta Bowl, where a 6-4-1 Notre Dame jumped over many superior teams to get crushed by Colorado. This was a $3 million dollar payoff that more deserving teams were denied. I believe it also led to the BCS. No other major sport determines their post-season participants by the size of the audience they can produce. If a lightly followed team earns a playoff spot, that’s the way it goes and the networks can just suck it up.