Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Audric Estime was not named a Doak Walker finalist WTF? The latest College Football Playoff rankings feature a top 4 of Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan with Washington now ahead of Florida State. Notre Dame lands in at no. 18 this week. Florida [...]
For the second straight week we avoided chaos at the top of the rankings as things stabilize heading into rivalry weekend and the regular season finale of 2023. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 11-0 at Georgia Tech 2 Washington 11-0 vs. [...]
Notre Dame came into this Saturday's game against Wake Forest as heavy favorites on Senior Day and after a brief struggle to find momentum eventually put things in cruise control for an easy victory. Back-to-back seasons of at least 8 wins: clinched for Marcus Freeman. The Irish put together a very solid day on offense [...]
The tradition of ACC continues with another visit from Wake Forest, feel the excitement emanating from this article. At one point, this looked like an interesting matchup as Sam Hartman faces his old team but the recent struggles by both the Irish and Demon Deacons put a bit of a downer on this Senior Day [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame starting right guard Rocco Spindler will miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury. Backup safety Luke Talich is also done for the year with a broken collarbone. Irish left tackle Joe Alt is 1 of 4 semifinalists [...]
The Notre Dame trip to Clemson ended up as a toss-up in the final numbers - SP+ gave the Irish a 43% expected win probability and an adjusted margin of -1.5 points. ND outgained the Tigers by nearly a yard per play, created more scoring chances, and were +1.22 in expected turnovers (only to finish [...]
Week 11 of the college football season brought us a near upset for Virginia, the top Dawgs asserting their dominance, Miami dropping their 4th ACC game, Washington holding serve at home, and much more including Michigan's loathing redemption tour exiting Happy Valley without a loss. As always, you can't depend on Penn State to pull [...]
The Irish faithful received a bit of good recruiting news heading into the bye weekend when linebacker/defensive end Dom Hulak verbally committed to Notre Dame on Friday. The 6'3"/225-pounder out of the Chicagoland area is the 8th commit in Notre Dame's recruiting Class of 2025 -- a class which currently ranks 3rd in the nation. [...]
Back in 2019 I embarked on an off-season journey to create a Notre Dame Hall of Fame Pyramid. You can see the results of that effort HERE for a refresher. A couple of years later we inducted Ian Book (16th best quarterback), Chase Claypool (14th best wide receiver), Cole Kmet (10th best tight end), Liam [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame came in at no. 20 this week in the College Football Playoff rankings with Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, and Florida State in the top 4 spots. In the continuing drama from Ann Arbor, the NCAA has come out and said [...]
The college football season is coming to its conclusion soon and during Notre Dame's 2nd bye week what better time than now to take a look at the head coach's doing a mighty fine job in 2023. As always, we aren't including the super obvious candidates (great job over there, Kirby Smart!) and want to [...]
Another week, another bitterly disappointing defeat against a team you can argue Notre Dame had no business losing to. A season that began with dreams of a playoff bid will now culminate in a 2nd or 3rd tier bowl game. The most frustrating aspect of this slide is that the Irish defense has clearly taken [...]
It was closer than we'd have liked, but the Micah Shrewsberry's ND coaching career started with a win for the Irish. Behind a record breaking night from Markus Burton, Notre Dame beat Niagara 70-63 at Purcell Pavilion. The Indiana Mr. Basketball scored 29 points to break the record for a freshman debut previously held by [...]
The 10th week of college football brought us an impressive offensive performance in Tuscaloosa, the defending champions remaining undefeated and extends their winning streak to 26 games, plus Washington stays atop of the Pac-12 with a big win inside the Coliseum. In the ACC, Florida State has clinched its first league championship game appearance in [...]
The line heading into this game did feel a little curious but it's example 9 million of how Vegas knows best as the Irish crashed and burned their boats on another trip Clemson on Saturday afternoon. The team fought back from a 1st half deficit and then couldn't complete a thorough comeback (or a pass) [...]
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