Five Wide Fullbacks returns as Notre Dame comes off a bye week and prepares to re-start the season this Saturday against Pittsburgh in South Bend. On this week's edition of 5WF we are tackling bowl projections, an OC search, the Heisman race, coaching hot seats, and the top position to grab in the portal that [...]
The Notre Dame football staff received some great news over the weekend when 2025 tight end James Flanigan verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'5"/220-pound out of Green Bay, WI is the seventh commit in Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2025 -- a class which currently ranks third in the country behind Georgia and [...]
We are downloading more data from week 8 after Ohio State choked out Penn State, Washington fell asleep, Florida State had a little scare, Alabama held off Tennessee, and Texas used some interesting officiating to slip by Houston. Not to be outdone, Iowa had one of the worst ways to lose that you'll see all [...]
It was announced just under 5 months ago that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick would be retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic school year and on Friday night October 13th the university announced that president Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C. would also be retiring at the same time. Notre Dame also announced that [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Xavier Watts has been named the Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week. Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick commented after a Senate hearing this week that collective bargaining with athletes, while maintaining they are not employees, could be a solution to the [...]
The end of the 2024 recruiting cycle is coming soon. It's been 154 days since our last scholarship update and like always we've got a lot of ground to cover following a busy summer and first two-thirds of the Irish football season. Is it just me or did this calendar year absolutely fly by? This [...]
After week 7 we have a new no. 1 in the 18S poll thanks to Washington's come-from-behind victory over Oregon. Huskies are superior to Bulldogs in every way so this is okay. Outside of that, the top 15 stayed relatively stable except for USC tumbling quite a bit. You hate to see it. Here's the [...]
While most of you are probably still basking in the glory of yet another USC embarrassment in Notre Dame Stadium, there were ripples through out the Mid Major conferences that shuffled a couple of things up. Let's dive into this week's Top Ten. Also Considered: Georgia St, SMU, UNLV, Georgia Southern Three And Out Takeaways [...]
It was dark there for a while but Notre Dame heads into a much-needed bye week of rest after a passionate 48-20 victory over rival USC on Saturday night. Optimism and happiness are back! While we spent all week worrying about the Irish offense and the future of the program we saw Al Golden & [...]
At some point, Marcus Freeman will have to figure out how to handle prosperity. But my goodness, can he handle adversity. Notre Dame laid the smack down on USC in its most complete performance of the season Saturday night, 48-20, probably putting a one-team end to Caleb Williams' bid to repeat as Heisman winner and [...]
It's been seven straight weeks of football and three consecutive games against ranked, undefeated foes but the show must go on. The unstoppable march of history waits for no one, and as much as Notre Dame would probably love an off-week that's just not an option. Following a demoralizing loss to Louisville, the Irish will [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Sad news as former Notre Dame safety Sergio Brown was arrested re-entering the United States from Mexico in connection with the murder of his mother. Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter could return to the lineup this Friday against Stanford. Oklahoma's leading receiver [...]
Notre Dame's continued offensive struggles created a tight game for most of the visit to Louisville, but as the defense wore down and the Irish offense failed to created much efficiency or explosiveness the Cardinals pulled away late in the second half. The ND offense had an extremely poor performance - just 4.2 yards per [...]
Now that Notre Dame suffered its 2nd loss of the season they are no longer featured in this top 20 poll. It's pretty sad times around here. Will the Irish be able to get back into this ranking in 2023? The biggest news of this past weekend happened in Dallas where Oklahoma put itself back [...]
While the weekend was not great for the Irish, we did see some shakeup in the Mid Major conferences worth taking a look into. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Marshall, Ohio, Georgia Southern, Georgia St, Jacksonville St Three And Out Takeaways First Down: Laramie Strikes Again As the title and this header note, Wyoming [...]
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