Notre Dame beating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl to earn a spot in the College Football Playoff semifinals is a program-defining result.

Among those that picked against Notre Dame, was one of the emerging mouthpieces of college football, On3's JD Pickell. Pickell is fair for the most part when it comes to breaking down games, and he definitely had his fair reasons to pick against the Irish. Although he has picked against Notre Dame many times this season ... I digress.

It's taken decades of near misses and maybes, but the narrative on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish is finally changing. For the last 30 years of football, the book on the Irish has been the same: Notre Dame is good,