Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Wisconsin has fired head coach Paul Chryst and will pay him a $11 million buyout. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, long known to be the heir apparent for the Badgers, takes over on an interim basis. For now. Colorado fired Karl Dorrell with [...]
The early national signing period opens up on Wednesday, December 21st and in keeping with recent tradition we can expect nearly all of Notre Dame's commits to officially commit right before Christmas. That leaves 78 days for the Irish to finish up their 2023 recruiting efforts. Recently, Notre Dame coaches were on the recruiting trail [...]
The bottom 6 teams in our top 20 poll from last week all lost opening the door to several new programs entering this week's poll. At the other end of the rankings we had a few close matchups led by Missouri going down to the wire in a near-upset of Georgia in front of a [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns with Notre Dame having the week off resting up for their trip to Las Vegas. In this week's edition we'll discuss re-ranking our top 25 Notre Dame players, the Heisman race, the post-season picture after a third of the season, the remaining Irish schedule difficulty, and if it is wise to [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Georgia Tech head coach Geoff Collins and athletic director Todd Stansbury have both been fired. Offensive line coach Brent Key will step up as the interim head coach. Stanford leading rusher EJ Smith will be out for the season due to injury. [...]
Four teams tumble out of our latest top 20 rankings as a fun week 4 mixes up the back half of our poll. The top 3 show no signs of letting up but the Beavers near-upset of USC, Tennessee finally getting Florida, and Texas definitely not being back were some of the highlights across the [...]
A few big pass plays for North Carolina masked what was otherwise a very dominant performance as Notre Dame went into Chapel Hill and picked up their first road win of 2022 and the Marcus Freeman era. Things started poorly for the Irish after UNC drove down the field to open the game while converting [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Herm Edwards has been fired at Arizona State. In just over 4 seasons he was 26-20 with the Sun Devils. With a NCAA investigation still pending, ASU has turned to running backs coach Shaun Aguano as the interim head coach. Sports Illustrated [...]
The Pac-12 led week 3 with some of the bigger wins this past Saturday but also suffered some really bad losses with one coach already handed his papers following an embarrassing defeat. Elsewhere, the top of the rankings look the same with Georgia continuing to look terrifying for a program supposedly rebuilding from their 2021 [...]
It was ugly early on during the Notre Dame-Cal game on Saturday afternoon. And I mean very, very ugly. Nearly a full hour elapsed before a first down from either team was made. The Irish offense especially came out seriously disheveled with quarterback Drew Pyne playing like the moment was far too big for him. [...]
When I think about the University of California, Berkeley I picture their stadium in the hills, earthquakes, hippies, Marshawn Lynch, Aaron Rodgers, 1950's era cheerleader uniforms, and their mascot Oski the Bear. Truth is this Cal program hasn't been on Notre Dame's radar pretty much at all since Vietnam. The Irish faced the Golden Bears [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News The latest playoff talks have been surrounding ironing out a new scheduling format with the 12-team tournament. Picking up steam is starting the season in week 0 (will we see week -1 games too?) and shuffling around playoff games in the winter [...]
The last thing many want to do after watching Notre Dame lose to Marshall is take a look at what all of the good teams are doing. Still, we march on with the rankings. Plus, fear not there is plenty of schadenfreude to fill your spirit with the struggles from other teams, too. There were [...]
We knew Marcus Freeman being thrown into the Fiesta Bowl followed up by an opener at Ohio State was going to be a tough hill to climb and a hole to dig out of as the new Notre Dame head coach. Losing to Sun Belt team Marshall at home in embarrassing fashion is like erecting [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News The College Football Playoff will be expanding to 12 teams but most do not expect it to happen before the current contract runs out after the 2025 season. The new media deal for the future 12-team College Football Playoff is expected to [...]
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