There were so many terrible things about Notre Dame's 25-10 victory over Boston College Saturday that I'm not sure which one I hated the most. Let's take them in chronological order: Kicking This is an absolute traveshamockery. A presumably fed-up Marcus Freeman benched Noah Burnette after he doinked another PAT and went for 2 after [...]
It was important Notre Dame won tonight's game for a lot of reasons, but a statement of intent for the program was in order. Play USC, beat USC, and beat USC playing the kind of football they refuse to play. Notre Dame eventually stopped screwing around and beat the Trojans into submission Saturday, 34-24, leaving [...]
Is it just me, or was this the first game of the season that had real 2024 vibes? Notre Dame tripped over itself a few times early Saturday, and we had a good old-fashioned ref show late in the first half (I'll leave discussion of that to the comments), but things calmed down after halftime [...]
One of these years, perhaps Notre Dame fans will get used to the Irish responding to being pushed to the brink of doom. Year after year it has occurred and year after year ND brings its A game just when fan pessimism is at its height. There was no question of the Irish's A game [...]
Two years in a row Notre Dame came into a matchup with Purdue deflated. Two years in a row the Irish have left the matchup with a W, though this one was a bit different. That probably says as much about Purdue - no longer a complete train wreck - as it does about Notre [...]
The thought crossed my mind at some point tonight - maybe it was around the 6th time Marcel Reed threw to a wide open receiver 20 yards downfield - that in the new college football world that seems so much like the NFL, maybe the "post-Super Bowl hangover" phenomenon you hear so much about in [...]
Every year I remember to do so, I like to examine the Notre Dame football schedule for signs of those always-dangerous spots on the schedule known as the Trap Games, in honor of the great Admiral Ackbar (RIP), who to this day I wish would've been the Ole Miss mascot. I rate those trap games [...]
It was one thing to lose. Beating good teams on the road is hard, and Miami is a good team. What was frustrating was seeing almost every position unit that was supposed to be awesome fail Notre Dame so consistently in Sunday night's 27-24 loss on the road. The offensive line was supposedly so good [...]
The 48 hours between Notre Dame capping its fall camp with its annual jersey scrimmage - won by the defense - and the announcement of the Week 1 starting quarterback were filled with speculation, concern and arguments. Irish fans got their answer this afternoon when the social media team released a simple post: Our starting [...]
If you read this site regularly, you've already seen GoldenIsThyFame pretty much nail the annoyed feeling us Irish fans have about the imminent prospect of USC ducking out of the teams' century-long rivalry because playing the likes of Minnesota and Maryland* is already just too darn hard. This presumed move is just the latest negative [...]
Marcus Freeman was practically beating the Notre Dame fan base over the head with the take that he wanted the three-man 2025 quarterback race down to two before the Irish reconvene for fall camp this August. It must have been mentioned a half-dozen times during the Blue-Gold spring game. Freeman said conversations would be had [...]
Sometimes football isn't complicated. Sometimes the other team just has more dudes than you and you can't beat them. That's pretty much what happened Monday night as Ohio State ended a dream Notre Dame run with a 34-23 title game win that was not as close as that, but was painfully close to maybe being [...]
As we approach next Monday's national championship game pitting our beloved Notre Dame against Ohio State, there's one thing that needs to be made plain. While us ND fans want this championship badly - and I'd argue of the fan bases that at least nominally have reason to expect to compete for titles, no fan [...]
My first thought after Drew Allar winged the ball out of bounds to secure a 27-24 Notre Dame victory over Penn State, the second New Year's 6 win for Marcus Freeman in a week, was pretty simple: How did that happen? TEAM GLORY ☘️ ORANGE BOWL CHAMPIONS #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/CbqnL8fYTG — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) January [...]
First, let's get this out of the way now: I cried. Thirty-one years. Thirty-one long years of not winning these games. Of coming up short. Of drawing the best possible opponent. Of chuckleheads on the Internet pretending losing games meant they shouldn't have been in them. It all got swept away in less than one [...]
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