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 [...]
Welcome to the finale of the ND Basketball's Missed Leap series, where we're discussing the causes of Notre Dame basketball's failure to take advantage of its back-to-back Elite Eight trips in 2015-16 and make a more lasting impact on the college hoops scene at large. I'll concede up front that this last thing that slowed [...]
Welcome to Part 2 of ND Basketball's Missed Leap. (By the way, if Notre Dame wants to keep winning games in the final seconds, we're totally willing to extend this series as long as necessary to keep that going.) Last week in our series on what happened to keep Notre Dame basketball from making The [...]
It's sort of hard to believe we ended up here. Notre Dame men's basketball made two straight Elite Eights in the 2015 and 2016 seasons, something no other program could claim. Since those runs, ND has played in precisely two NCAA tournament games, both in 2017 (a fine team in its own right that just [...]
Sweet, sweet bowl victory! Irish held Iowa State to only 9 points aka the fewest points @NDFootball's given up in a bowl game since the 1993 Cotton Bowl! #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/VHAnrA9Fm0 — The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) December 28, 2019 The mood around the Notre Dame program wasn't great this week. As the Camping World Bowl approached, [...]
Another year, another 10-win season. There's a sentence that Notre Dame fans aren't used to seeing. The Irish capped off a 10-2 regular season Saturday with a 45-24 win over Stanford that ended the way you want all ND games to end - with the biggest drama being whether the Irish give up too many [...]
You don't want to hear what I have to say about this game in particular. Besides, if I did, it would be very NSFW. What I have after tonight's game are questions. A lot of questions. A few of them for your perusal, and maybe some attempts to answer them: Why does this keep happening? [...]
Those of us of a certain age (read: anyone over 20) remember when the idea of beating USC at all was a fantasy. The Trojans owned the Irish in the decade of the 2000s and it seemed like it would never end. It's important to be mindful of those dark days before jumping to the [...]
There was pretty much nothing to take from today's 52-0 Notre Dame win over Bowling Green except that it was great to see ND, for the second time this season, take care of a totally overmatched opponent. It says a lot about the team's focus level. For the record, I have no problem with playing [...]
This one felt a little different. Not a lot different, but a little. I suppose that's an easy sentiment to dismiss. The ramblings of a biased Notre Dame fan. That's alright. I'm just telling you what I felt. Notre Dame lost another close call against a presumed elite team, basically a yearly ritual for this [...]
With all due respect to the first two opponents on the Notre Dame schedule, everyone with a pulse knew in August that this season will likely be determined by what happens next Saturday at Georgia. Nothing has changed in that department after the Irish's 66-14 rout of New Mexico, a game that bore a slight [...]
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