Notre Dame picked up another defensive back in its 2021 class today when corner JoJo Johnson announced for the Irish. The 5'11", 180-pound Hoosier picked up his Notre Dame offer two days ago and wasted little time - none, if you believe some of the message board rumors - committing. Irish cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens [...]
Welcome back to the Playoff Big Board, here in the strangest of college football seasons. Usually our board consists of all ranked undefeated teams and all ranked one-loss Power 5 teams in the committee rankings. I’m going to tweak it a bit this year to reflect all those teams that I believe are seriously on [...]
Cheeseburgers were moderately helpful for Notre Dame this week, as five of the six remaining game win probabilities in SP+ and FPI inched upwards (the sixth stayed level, if you're wondering). The overall picture hasn't appreciably changed from last week; both models have it as roughly a coin flip for the Irish to win out, [...]
Not once, not twice, but three times this week Notre Dame football has flipped a prospect from another school. This time it's offensive tackle Caleb Johnson, whose recruitment was well under way when the Irish finally offered back in March. The 6'7", 295-pound Florida resident and Fort Wayne native had some natural interest in Notre [...]
Notre Dame laid another length in its Polynesian pipeline today when linebacker Kahanu Kia announced his commitment. The 6'2", 220-pound Hawaiian hails from Punahou, which is also the alma mater of current Irish linebacker Marist Liufau and former Irish players Manti Te'o and Robby Toma. Perhaps not coincidentally, Toma is currently an assistant at Punahou [...]
Notre Dame worked its second flip of the week on the recruiting trail when former Colorado pledge Josh Bryan announced his commitment to the Irish. Rumors have been floating for a while that the Notre Dame staff had some interest in the 6'0", 190-pound Californian, but in what was originally expected to be a tight [...]
Notre Dame caught a rather important boomerang in its 2021 class when blue-chip cornerback Philip Riley announced his re-commitment on Tuesday. His recruitment was a bit of a roller coaster that might normally raise some red flags, but when you add context to it it's much less worrisome. A brief timeline: Riley, a Florida resident [...]
Notre Dame logged its best win of the Brian Kelly era, its best win of the last 27 years, and arguably one of its best wins ever - it was only the program's ninth win overall versus an AP #1 team and fourth such win in nine tries at Notre Dame Stadium. (Since I know [...]
Geoff Collins's post-triple-option reclamation project continues in Atlanta. That's probably the best thing you can say about Georgia Tech football this season, as the Yellow Jackets sit at 2-4 and -110 on scoring margin. Yes, 66 of that deficit came in one game against Clemson, but they also lost by 28 to UCF, 17 to [...]
Blowing out a mediocre-to-bad team is a good thing! But not as good as you might imagine, apparently. FPI absolutely loved Notre Dame's performance against Pitt, while SP+ somehow viewed it as decidedly meh. Weird, but we'll get into it. Recapping the methodology for these articles: These aren't actual SP+ win probabilities, as SP+ creator [...]
Notre Dame's lackluster output against Louisville had much less of an effect in the advanced stats models than it did in our psyches - with one very notable suggestion, which we'll get into below. While the game was certainly a frustrating one for the fans, as far as the models are concerned things went non-catastrophically. [...]
We're back (again)! That pesky thing called life got in the way for a bit, but thankfully I was able to carve out a little time today and get the probability matrices going again. TL,DR: It still effectively looks like a one-game season, but some opponents have the potential to be annoying. Also, the uncertainty [...]
Notre Dame's 2021 recruiting class added its third four-star receiver today when Jayden Thomas announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6'1", 205-pound Georgian has long been rumored to be a Notre Dame lean, with several ties to the program. He trains with fellow 2021 Irish commits Deion Colzie and Cane Berrong and attends the [...]
In a very welcome development, blue-chip WR Deion Colzie recommitted to Notre Dame today. He committed almost a year ago (which made us very happy) and decommitted about six months ago (which made us sad, no link but trust me), throwing his recruitment completely back open when he did. After his decommitment he picked up [...]
The win probability matrices are back! I'm sure you were all devastated at the thought that we might not have them this year... I didn't have time this year to do a preseason post or a Week 1 post, but I do now and I'll try to keep these coming every week. SP+ can be [...]
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