Well, I've seen enough of the Sunday night opening games to last my entire life. Five years ago was the Texas disaster, and this one came darn close to being just as soul-crushing. Notre Dame did somehow survive the opener tonight to defeat Florida State and its overwhelming karma boost from McKenzie Milton, 41-38, in [...]
A few years ago, I was into ranking the potential trap games on the Notre Dame football schedule on a scale of 1 to 10 Ackbars. I haven't done it since the beloved admiral (spoiler alert!) was wiped out in The Last Jedi, so RIP to a legend. For reasons unclear to me at this [...]
Confession time: I don't hate Charlie Weis. I never did, and absent some story surfacing about heinous behavior of his, I'm sure I never will. This isn't necessarily a popular take among Notre Dame football fans. Weis, after all, was the last of three (four, if you count the week-long George O'Leary era) failed football [...]
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly sent a shot across the bow of college football Friday evening when the school announced the hiring of former Cincinnati defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman as Clark Lea's replacement at the same position. Please welcome Bob Hinton Defensive Coordinator/LB coach, @Marcus_Freeman1. ☘️ 📰 https://t.co/ZMIEQvRhun#GoIrish x #Rally pic.twitter.com/Ovy89FyBBb — Notre Dame [...]
No surprises came out of New Year's Day and the Rose Bowl, as Notre Dame lost to Alabama 31-14 in a game whose outcome was pretty much settled very early. I have no artsy lead to this, so let's just get right into it: Notre Dame is way better than in 2012, and it didn't [...]
When it comes down to it, Saturday's 34-10 loss to Clemson will mark a missed opportunity for Notre Dame. A missed opportunity to shove it in the face of anyone who talked about conference affiliation like it actually matters. A missed opportunity to put to bed any talk of an asterisk from the Nov. 7 [...]
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; [...]
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