We would have lost the Toledo game

more often than not from my earliest childhood memory through 2016.

Think of it this way: In the 20 years of Davie, Ty, Weis, and Kelly 1.0 ND lost to a team that finished unranked 48 times. That's nearly 2.5 losses to unranked teams per season.

After we beat the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday evening, Kelly 2.0 will have completed all 5 years without a single loss to an unranked team.

Now, you ultimately can't just write off Kelly's first 8 years when judging him, but it's undeniable that Kelly 2.0 has brought the program up a tier. And the recent recruiting momentum (landing some top tier kids that we've been missing out on for decades) indicates that the ceiling has not yet been reached.