Sometimes you just have no explanation for anything. Notre Dame pulled off a seemingly miraculous 32-29 win over Virginia Tech Saturday night in a game they frankly had no business winning for a million reasons. But somehow, someway, ND survived and will enter a much-needed off week at 5-1 with a chance to reset before [...]
Imagine any Notre Dame team from 1997-2014 winning a game in which its third-string quarterback was taking whacks behind a line anchored by its third and fourth-string left tackle while the starting defensive tackle was out too. The Irish have reached that level as a program and they proved it with a satisfying 31-point fourth-quarter [...]
Notre Dame football might not be as entertaining, or as good, as a year ago, but for the moment the Irish remain undefeated after beating Purdue 27-13. The game was, mostly by default, ND's best performance of the season. It also tied Brian Kelly with Knute Rockne with 105 wins at Notre Dame. As the [...]
There are so many questions that Notre Dame fans will be impatient to get answered after Saturday's 32-29 Houdini act over Toledo. MICHAEL. MAYER. NUFF. SAID. No. 8 @NDFootball 32 - Toledo 29 📺 @peacockTV #GoIrish #BeatRockets pic.twitter.com/1Z4m3l7xZQ — The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) September 11, 2021 First of all, let's not sugarcoat this: While Toledo [...]
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, [...]
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