Honestly, I could just leave it at the title, but you guys come here for more than just snappy headlines, so let's go over my philosophical objections to the colossally dumb 24-team College Football Playoff that reportedly is all but locked in for 2027, and also why the new format probably helps Notre Dame. Why [...]
For all the talk of Leave No Doubt, for all the talk that things had changed, the first game of Notre Dame's two-game season was basically a replay of the 2025 Notre Dame team's first game of what ended up amounting to a two-game season. BYU defeated Notre Dame 28-24 in a game that, outside [...]
Delayed gratification. Unit Strength. The Golden Standard. Leave No Doubt. And now, Clean Your Plate. Marcus Freeman has come up with a bunch of kinda corny catchphrases in his time at Notre Dame. Clean Your Plate, in case it hasn't been made clear yet, means take advantage of your opportunities when they come. If you [...]
Notre Dame has an elite defense. North Carolina's best unit is its defense. So naturally, Saturday's game went into the shootout realm for a bit before the Irish calmed things down and finished off a 37-26 win that narrowly kept their daunting double-digit win streak alive at 15 games It was a game that looked [...]
Another week, another lopsided win for Notre Dame as it pounded Purdue 49-10 for its 14th straight double-digit win. Opponent aside, this felt like the first game of the season that was pretty close to a complete performance as the Irish continue to travel the path that leads to their two top-10 opponents later in [...]
When I was a kid, Notre Dame pretty much sucked. I turned 11 during Bob Davie's first season, also the first season for me back in Indiana after over six years in South Carolina. So I was well into adulthood before I witnessed a truly very good Notre Dame football team, and well into my [...]
It's one of Notre Dame nation's favorite words when delivered by Marcus Freeman: Violence. And the second I heard it come out of his mouth in the pregame interview today, all concerns about Rice being the next horror story chapter in the "second game of a Marcus Freeman season" book basically went out the window. [...]
Maybe I'm easily impressed - other than the 2006 Sugar Bowl, every other Notre Dame game I've attended was in South Bend - but Lambeau Field was a 1-of-1 to me. What a place and what a scene. My blessed wife, aiming to cushion the blow of my upcoming 40th birthday, gifted me a trip [...]
After much hemming and hawing through the media, Notre Dame and USC announced a 4-year agreement Monday to play their historic rivalry game starting in 2030. The series will start at SC in 2030 and will be played in week 1 of the first two seasons of the deal before being played at some undetermined [...]
For those of you plugged-in types (and my sympathies if you are), you might have seen a Notre Dame-themed Twitter account brag after Ohio State's massive uniform-advertisement deal with Chase Bank was announced this morning that the Irish would never, repeat NEVER, stoop so low as to infect their uniforms with corporate sponsors. What happened [...]
To paraphrase Frank the Tank from Old School, if you're reading this, you already know. The program has been boarded up. The promising freshman. The veteran point guard. The sharpshooting sophomore. Everything. We're at the Purcell Pavilion. I love you. Frank. The recent past It's not clear what's next for Notre Dame basketball after a [...]
Today was far less about Notre Dame/Stanford than a bunch of other games with playoff implications for Notre Dame. Almost every single one went badly except for the Irish's game, an easy win that sent ND into whatever postseason it ends up in on a 10-game win streak, each of which with a 99.4% or [...]
I thought about writing up a draft of this post earlier this morning, assuming it would just be a matter of filling in some details. But then my kid wanted to watch the Knuckles series, so that went by the wayside. The Knuckles series had far more drama than Saturday's game, as Notre Dame utterly [...]
Find yourself a partner who cares as much about you as Pat Narduzzi cares about tweaking Notre Dame. A few days after inexplicably saying his team's matchup against the Irish didn't matter if they won the conference title (which they're not presently in position to do, worth noting), Narduzzi rode two of several ridiculous penalty [...]
The Notre Dame fan base has treated the Navy game largely the same each year under Marcus Freeman (including his year as defensive coordinator): Brief moments of panic early in the game that this is going to be, as some of us put it, the annual trip to the dentist's office, followed by a fairly [...]
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