Here are some interesting stats...

...on Charlie Weis:

With two games left in the regular season at home against Connecticut (4-5) and at No. 14 Stanford (7-3), Weis finds himself with the same 35-25 overall coaching record that got Bob Davie fired eight years ago, and the same .583 winning percentage that got Tyrone Willingham fired five years ago.

Weis’ 1-8 record against top 10 teams is the worst in Notre Dame history, a .111 winning percentage. Davie was 1-7, Willingham was 3-5.

Notre Dame coaches that led the Irish to national championships all had winning records against the top 10 teams. Frank Leahy was an amazing 19-3-1. Lou Holtz was 21-15-1, Dan Devine was 10-7 and Ara Parseghian went 10-9-3.

The eight straight losses by Weis to top 10 teams is a school record. His next loss will tie Gerry Faust for the second most in school history. The record is 30, set by Holtz, but he needed 11 seasons to do that.

Weis also fell to 4-12 against ranked teams overall, the second worst mark in school history. Only Hugh Devore, who served as interim coach in 1945 and 1963, has a worse mark at 1-5.

I have to think Weis is toast. The Irish will probably finish 7-5 after beating UConn at home this week and losing to Stanford in the last game of the season. So who should be Notre Dame's next coach? I can't believe Urban Meyer would want it, Jon Gruden's no good, Bob Stoops has jumped the shark at Oklahoma, Kirk Ferentz is a possibility, but the smart money seems to be on Brian Kelly of Cincinnati. He seems to check all the boxes.

Oh, and one more thing about next week's game:

Weis said the Irish need to be focused on Connecticut heading into their final home game, mindful of how last year the Irish went into the final home game and squandered a 13-point fourth-quarter lead and lost to Syracuse. The Orange entered the game with a 1-8 record, were 19 1/2 -point underdogs and had just fired coach Greg Robinson.

Ouch.