Notre Dame finished the regular season with USC and will complete the bowl season facing the other USC from the southeast. Friday afternoon live from Jacksonville, the Irish will face South Carolina in the 78th edition of the Gator Bowl. ***Gator Bowl Mini-Preview*** This will be the first time Notre Dame and the Gamecocks meet [...]
Recently, the NCAA ruled that players will not lose any eligibility by participating in this post-season of college football. With the amount of opt-outs and transfers growing every year I would expect this to become a permanent rule at some point. For Notre Dame, it won't change anything since the only true freshman player who [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame's 2023 recruiting class came to a close on Wednesday with a 24-man haul, including decommitments from Peyton Bowen and Jayden Limar. Still we rise. The Irish have added grad transfer wide receiver Kaleb Smith from Virginia Tech. Since his namesake [...]
Wednesday morning December 21st opens up the first day of the early signing period for college football. If you're reading this and missed the ESD Primer, click HERE and get caught up on Notre Dame's 2023 recruiting class. This has never felt like the old first Wednesday of February National Signing Day bonanza that we [...]
The Notre Dame 2023 recruiting class officially got under way with its first commit on June 29, 2021. That was 157 days before Marcus Freeman was officially hired as the new head coach for the Fighting Irish. This Wednesday, the Early Signing period opens up for college football effectively ending the 2023 cycle for the [...]
A running back named Williams from Missouri, you say? On Friday evening, Notre Dame added its 7th member of the 2024 recruiting class as running back Aneyas Williams committed to Marcus Freeman and the Irish program following multiple visits to campus throughout 2022. Hailing from Hannibal High School in northeast Missouri just across the Mississippi [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Terrible news out of Starkville where Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach passed away on Monday from complications following a heart attack. Certainly one of the most colorful characters in college football history, Leach's coaching of the Air Raid at Kentucky and [...]
As we await the drama of Signing Day and the Gator Bowl it's time to fire up another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. Five questions, five answers. This week we are taking a look at next year's Heisman race, an underrated Irish opponent for next fall, the future of NFL Draft picks from South Bend, [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Irish quarterback Drew Pyne has entered the transfer portal and will not play in the Gator Bowl. Also not returning for 2023 include 2019 recruit Osita Ekwonu who bounced around from linebacker to pass rusher without playing time and 2022 corner recruit [...]
On Wednesday, one week before the early signing period opens up, Notre Dame added its 27th--and possibly final--member of the 2023 recruiting class. Virginia athlete Brandyn Hillman committed to the Irish and adds a versatile playmaker with a very unique skill-set to the program. Why #NotreDame? Two-way athlete Brandyn Hillman (@dmv_b3) spoke with @SWiltfong247 about [...]
This was a difficult championship weekend to process. Certainly, it lacked drama and thanks to USC's loss on Friday night in Las Vegas there was basically nothing at stake for the Power 5 matchups on Saturday. The top 2 seeds took care of business anyway, even if they didn't need to, and the no. 3 [...]
The bowl matchups were announced early on Sunday evening with the Gator Bowl and Holiday Bowl battling it out for the right to feature Notre Dame football. In the end, the Gator Bowl won out with the Fighting Irish set to face one of the nation's hottest teams in South Carolina. Here are some facts [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News College football has finally approved a 12-team playoff, set to begin in the 2024 season. The top 4 seeds will receive a bye with teams ranked 5 through 12 playing 1st round games on campuses. For 2024-25 bowl sites will be used [...]
Notre Dame picked up its 26th commitment of the 2023 cycle on Thursday night as wide receiver Kaleb Smith gave his verbal to the Fighting Irish. Smith was offered a little over a year ago by Texas Tech and ended up committing to the Red Raiders on February 2nd of this year. He comes out [...]
These are the type of weekends that are really difficult to shake off, forget, and let go. It featured LSU flopping in College Station and that felt like a briefly funny but ultimately pointless loss for Brian Kelly. What can we say? Good things happening to Michigan are among the worst things to happen to [...]
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