Nothing was going to make week two look all that appealing following the Best Opening Week Ever™ but that's all behind us now as college football provides us with some beauties this time around. There are numerous high-profile games on the docket this week and that includes two of Notre Dame's opponents facing each other. [...]
It's becoming increasingly clear that Notre Dame will be in the market for a defensive coordinator sooner rather than later. Suffice to say, the problems on defense are not only overshadowing the program but seriously threaten the stability and viability of the Brian Kelly regime in South Bend. The situation is frustrating not only because [...]
As we expected, Notre Dame won a fairly boring and listless game against Nevada on Saturday afternoon. Following a scoreless first quarter for both sides it was a big second quarter explosion by the Irish which put this one to bed before halftime. There was some good, some bad, and a devastating injury to discuss. Here's [...]
Notre Dame released its depth chart for the Nevada game earlier in the week which only covers the two-deep. There weren't many changes at all but that's why we provide a depth chart for the entire roster and find little nooks and crannies to discuss for each game. As I'm sure you've seen tweeted out [...]
It's the home opener for the 2016 football season and the last opener before the official unveiling of the Crossroads project. On Saturday we'll finally see the (nearly) finished bones of the $400 million project, complete with video board space without a video board. The Irish come off a deflating loss on the road in [...]
Time to pick ourselves up and continue with the season. There's still a lot of football left to watch and hopefully some happy moments for Irish football. At least, there will be entertaining games across the country to chew on each week. This doesn't look like a super great week as the loaded opening slate means [...]
With the move to the new site I hadn't decided if I would tweak my usual post-game reviews or not. I was leaning towards change in some fashion and the outcome on Sunday night in Austin locked up that I wouldn't be doing the usual review. It's the first game of the season, and it's [...]
The 2016 college football season officially got under way last Friday in Australia (Cal beat Hawaii 51-31) and now the first full weekend is upon us. Remember, this weekend is so action-packed that the Irish will have to wait until Sunday night to get the new campaign started. So, the bright lights in Texas await [...]
The season is literally hours away and Notre Dame's opponents have mostly picked their quarterbacks or narrowed down their choices considerably. There were a fair deal of off-season battles and before the games are played not all of these competitions are over. For now, as we enter the first full week of kickoff I wanted [...]
The Big E Picks are no more. Due to setting up shop at our new site and getting a little bored with our weekly picks format I've decided to retire that pick 'em league. My apologies to anyone who may have been looking forward to that this fall. In truth, roughly half of the participants [...]
Brian Kelly met with the press on Tuesday afternoon to officially kick off the 2016 football season game week opener against Texas. Due to the wonders of television we still have nearly 5 full days until we see real live football from the Irish but we'll make it soon enough. The slate this Saturday is [...]
We live in a wonderful world where there are numerous Notre Dame players catching the eye of NFL scouts. This isn't like the mid-aughts where maybe two players were getting some hype about maybe getting picked in the 2nd round. Things are much different these days with the proliferation of social media and hot takes [...]
So begins a new college football season which will be full of joy, angst, beer, and victory. We're now entering the third year of the College Football Playoff and the last before the Big 12 adds a conference title game again and likely adds more members to its league. In putting together this preview a [...]
One of the main story lines heading into this season was the depth that Notre Dame has built throughout the program. Finally, a season that could potentially survive a bunch of injuries! Well, it's never that simple now is it? As of today, the Irish sit at 80 scholarships for 4-year players. That's not a [...]
Wednesday was Brian Kelly's first press conference since the events of last weekend. Following practice he met with the media and provided some updates to the 2016 Fighting Irish football team: Kelly brought up the Fulton Five incident from last weekend saying that he was (paraphrasing here) super pissed off about the situation. Interestingly, he [...]
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