Saturday’s Notre Dame home-opener never should have been decided by Riley Leonard’s arm, good or bad. But, in the end, it did, and the Fighting Irish are 1-1 with a two-point loss to four-touchdown underdog Northern Illinois because of it. For the second straight week to start the 2024 season, Notre Dame didn’t have much of a passing game with its senior transfer from Duke. But on second and 1 from their own 49 and around six minutes remaining, the Irish let Leonard take a deep shot. It was well under-thrown and intercepted. The Northern Illinois Huskies of the Mid-American Conference worked t…