The college football season is coming to its conclusion soon and during Notre Dame's 2nd bye week what better time than now to take a look at the head coach's doing a mighty fine job in 2023. As always, we aren't including the super obvious candidates (great job over there, Kirby Smart!) and want to [...]
The 10th week of college football brought us an impressive offensive performance in Tuscaloosa, the defending champions remaining undefeated and extends their winning streak to 26 games, plus Washington stays atop of the Pac-12 with a big win inside the Coliseum. In the ACC, Florida State has clinched its first league championship game appearance in [...]
The line heading into this game did feel a little curious but it's example 9 million of how Vegas knows best as the Irish crashed and burned their boats on another trip Clemson on Saturday afternoon. The team fought back from a 1st half deficit and then couldn't complete a thorough comeback (or a pass) [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame tight end Mitchell Evans is out for the rest of 2023 after tearing his ACL. Xavier Watts was named the Bronco Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week again. Benjamin Morrison a Jim Thorpe Award semifinalist. Notre Dame debuted at [...]
Washington continues to look wobbly following the win over Oregon but haven't dropped one since with a couple close calls. The same can't be said for Oklahoma who got rock chalked over the weekend and will need to fight back into the playoff picture. By the way, the first College Football Playoff rankings come out [...]
Notre Dame came out with a few mistakes offensively then put some adversity behind them to bury the Pitt Panthers on Saturday afternoon in South Bend. The win moves the Irish to 7-2 in Marcus Freeman's second season with the program while lowly Pittsburgh falls down to 2-6 with top 10 ranked Florida State headed [...]
After a 2-year break the historic rivalry game between Notre Dame and Pittsburgh is back on this weekend live from South Bend. Back in the 2020 meeting, quarterback Kenny Pickett was injured, Pitt gained 162 total yards, and the 42-point Irish win was the 2nd worst defeat of the Pat Narduzzi era. A lot has [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Michigan has suspended a staffer accused of breaking all sorts of rules surrounding illegally taping opponents in an attempt to learn their team signals. It keeps getting worse by the hour. Not surprisingly, the NCAA is ready to trial coach to player [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns as Notre Dame comes off a bye week and prepares to re-start the season this Saturday against Pittsburgh in South Bend. On this week's edition of 5WF we are tackling bowl projections, an OC search, the Heisman race, coaching hot seats, and the top position to grab in the portal that [...]
We are downloading more data from week 8 after Ohio State choked out Penn State, Washington fell asleep, Florida State had a little scare, Alabama held off Tennessee, and Texas used some interesting officiating to slip by Houston. Not to be outdone, Iowa had one of the worst ways to lose that you'll see all [...]
It was announced just under 5 months ago that Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick would be retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic school year and on Friday night October 13th the university announced that president Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C. would also be retiring at the same time. Notre Dame also announced that [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Xavier Watts has been named the Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week. Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick commented after a Senate hearing this week that collective bargaining with athletes, while maintaining they are not employees, could be a solution to the [...]
The end of the 2024 recruiting cycle is coming soon. It's been 154 days since our last scholarship update and like always we've got a lot of ground to cover following a busy summer and first two-thirds of the Irish football season. Is it just me or did this calendar year absolutely fly by? This [...]
After week 7 we have a new no. 1 in the 18S poll thanks to Washington's come-from-behind victory over Oregon. Huskies are superior to Bulldogs in every way so this is okay. Outside of that, the top 15 stayed relatively stable except for USC tumbling quite a bit. You hate to see it. Here's the [...]
It was dark there for a while but Notre Dame heads into a much-needed bye week of rest after a passionate 48-20 victory over rival USC on Saturday night. Optimism and happiness are back! While we spent all week worrying about the Irish offense and the future of the program we saw Al Golden & [...]
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