It's been a pretty standard drumbeat ever since the announcement came down in July that for one season, Notre Dame football would play a conference schedule, in the ACC. It might get a little louder over the next week-plus, as we lead up to the ACC title game between the Irish and Clemson. "Will they [...]
There are any number of things you could say about today's 45-21 Notre Dame victory over Syracuse that officially moves ND within 1 win of the College Football Playoff, but let me start with this: It's pretty nice that the Irish can play, frankly, a poor game and still win by 24, isn't it? That [...]
Notre Dame couldn't stop North Carolina and they lost one of their best defensive players to a targeting call in the second quarter. Deep trouble, right? Clark Lea laughs in the face of deep trouble. Notre Dame allowed 3 points in the final 3 quarters Friday and downed North Carolina, 31-17. It won't go down [...]
"Let the past die...Kill it, if you have to." Today, Notre Dame followed Kylo Ren's advice and put away the whole "lose to BC a week after beating #1" storyline with a fairly easy 45-31 win over the Eagles. The game had no real business being that close, but whatever. The Irish moved to 8-0 [...]
Two years ago, Brian Kelly said ND was closer than you thought to beating Clemson. He was mostly branded a wishful thinker. He was right. Notre Dame proved that Saturday, stopping the 4th-longest regular season winning streak in college football history and beating back Clemson 47-40 in a win that sealed, once and for all, [...]
Notre Dame won a game Saturday against Louisville, 12-7. At least, I think they won. It can be hard to see sometimes on a day where Clemson - the one measure of this season - utterly blowtorched Georgia Tech 73-7 and invited some (more) pessimistic thoughts about whether the Irish can hang in when the [...]
Been way too long since we had one of these... I guess it would've been too easy if Notre Dame came off their lengthy layoff and blew the doors off Florida State from the get-go. But the Irish got themselves together eventually and put the screws to the Seminoles to pick up a 42-26 win [...]
To date, Notre Dame has earned nothing but praise from the sports media for how it's handled its reporting of COVID-19 cases, and deservedly so. The school has released regular testing updates and been fully transparent about the results. It certainly helped that most of the news they delivered was good: Only a small handful [...]
The 2011 demons were exorcised Saturday as Notre Dame didn't let South Florida become a meme again this time around, blasting the Bulls 52-0. There's essentially nothing to dislike from today's performance, so let's talk about some of the best stuff we saw. A stable of running backs Standard "this opponent is bad" caveat applies; [...]
(Weird disclaimer: Photographers weren't allowed in the stadium today, so we're rolling with a photo of last year's game.) ND's off-season lasted just over eight months. It was only two weeks longer than it would've been in a normal world. It felt a lot longer. But the wait ended Saturday, and Notre Dame dispatched Duke [...]
The new 2020 schedule is out. The ACC announced this morning the dates for its truncated slate, Notre Dame included. Time to Rally! ☘️ First up? #BeatDuke #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/WKefvHUy0u — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) August 6, 2020 The three big takeaways from a schedule we mostly already knew: No Navy We already knew Notre Dame's [...]
Earlier this week, one of those RT-bait Tweets designed to promote response turned up in our Slack discussion. It was right in our wheelhouse. Here it is: Question of the day: Name your favorite game where your team won, but it didn't involve a championship of any kind AND didn't involve your biggest rival. *Bama [...]
In all the years you've been reading our fair site, have we ever told you when we first set foot in the hallowed halls of the House That Rockne Built? Now the truth will come out. A couple of weeks ago our staffers got caught up in a digression in our Slack discussion, as we [...]
In this time of uncertainty, we college football fans are probably spending more time than usual looking at the past. Part of this is opportunity - there's nothing but time on our hands, and for sports fans used to filling that time with games, there aren't any of those. Another is that plenty of folks [...]
There was some sports media news that hit late last week, as New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees signed a future deal with NBC Sports to do color commentary for them once he retires at some undetermined point (he is signed for 2020). The deal was viewed as a downer for ESPN, which coveted Brees [...]
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