The week of numbers continues! Earlier, we published our primer on the Early Signing Period that began this Wednesday and should just about sew up Notre Dame's 2022 recruiting class. Next, we jumped into the overall scholarship situation for Fighting Irish football as Marcus Freeman takes the reigns of his first full recruiting cycle. Today, [...]
With Early Signing Day coming tomorrow the 2022 recruiting cycle is essentially over and Notre Dame turns most of its focus to the hot start with the 2023 class in hopes it'll be one of the best to come to South Bend in 30+ years. For certain, these days around the Holidays are a weird [...]
The #IRISHRISING22 class is about to finish up as Notre Dame has navigated some of the most unprecedented times in program history in recent days. With the (ahem) smooth transition from Brian Kelly to Marcus Freeman the typical damage done to a class with a sudden coaching change has been limited. So, crisis averted. This [...]
Conference championship week is over as Alabama proves yet again they are inevitable, a Group of 5 team finally makes the playoffs, Michigan's run sadly continues, but maybe most importantly we won't have any drama for the Heisman as Bryce Young sewed up the award with a big game against previously undefeated and No. 1 [...]
Notre Dame introduced its new 35-year old head coach Marcus Freeman on Monday afternoon to an assembled crowd inside the indoor practice facility. Exactly 11 months ago Andy wrote an article for this website announcing the hiring of Freeman as defensive coordinator in a battle with LSU that many thought the Irish would lose. Then, [...]
Notre Dame narrowly missed out on another College Football Playoff bid and as expected was given a berth in the Fiesta Bowl where they'll face Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma State to start the New Year. The Cowboys won 11 out of their first 12 games this season with only a blemish road loss at Iowa [...]
Ryan Day finally loses a Big Ten game, the Iron Bowl came through again, Nebraska found yet another way to inflict a devastating loss on its fans, North Carolina blows it magnificently, Bedlam delivered craziness, and we learned not to trust Wisconsin. College football is the best. With the regular season behind us, let's take [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks where this week we are talking all things Brian Kelly. Nearly 12 full years with the program and gone on a plane to Baton Rouge after a brief meeting with the players, what a wild ending it's been to a long tenure for Kelly. We're going [...]
Can we skip awarding this year's Heisman Trophy? Can this year finally be the one where we award someone for the quality of their career? Don't get me wrong now, I'm usually a staunch defender of the Heisman process and avoid the too-cool-for-school criticisms that it's become a joke of an award. This year, though! [...]
In a sudden matter of minutes on Monday night, Brian Kelly was gone from Notre Dame. After nearly 12 full seasons the coach has decided to leave for LSU and what is reportedly a very large bag of money. We'll have more on his legacy in the coming days and weeks. Speculation on who will [...]
As expected, Notre Dame cruised to its 11th win of the season in the finale at Stanford in a game that was never seriously challenged. Into the late hours of Saturday night on the East Coast, the Irish played out the string to conclude a tough season from a personnel standpoint overcoming many obstacles and [...]
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Of course, David Shaw has always been a villain to Notre Dame fans but as he's wrapping up his 11th season at Stanford the tide has inevitably turned on the coach as the struggles of the program have become more [...]
Oregon and Michigan State get their doors blown off, Wake Forest is toppled by a resurgent Clemson, but that didn't stop your boy from having his best week of picks all season. I'm just gathering more information and getting better at this whole thing, right? There's no way this week's picks will flop! Before we [...]
In some corners this summer Georgia Tech was thought to be a surprise team in the ACC. They tried like heck to beat Clemson earlier this year and blew out North Carolina the week after. Hey, alright now! However, most of those good vibes had been extinguished prior to this weekend's visit to Notre Dame [...]
It was a quiet week in college football featuring a lot of teams moving up just one spot in our poll thanks to the Oklahoma loss in Waco. It was a good week for favorites overall which is always less fun for the rankings. But, fear not we should see some more chaos this weekend. [...]
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