This series will look at past Notre Dame football National Championship seasons and imagine how things would have finished if a college football playoff system was in place at the time. Remember when we used to live in a time when people believed there as no way a playoff would ever happen? Let's jump back [...]
Fast start, check. Improved play across the board, check. Dominate a much weaker opponent, check. Under a cloud-less South Bend sky in the beaming sun, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame quickly dispatched a ragged and rebuilding South Florida Bulls team unable to cope with the home team's skill, size, and depth. With their 20th [...]
It's been 9 years since South Florida's insane first-ever game against Notre Dame. A lot has changed since that 5 hour and 59-minute debacle brought us perhaps the weirdest game in school history. Brian Kelly has remained in South Bend but USF has since fired Skip Holtz, Willie Taggart, and Charlie Strong. They return to [...]
In the modern world of sports it has become a lot more common place for an athlete to develop his or her own personal logo. Things in this area of sports-business started to explode in the 1990's and they have gone to an entirely new level over the past 20 years. Today, nearly all of [...]
A lot of rust was to be expected for Notre Dame football as they took the field for the first time this Saturday in a tighter-than-expected 14-point win over the visiting Duke Blue Devils. The Irish sputtered to zero yards on their first 3 drives and only led 10-6 at halftime before showing a lot [...]
Welcome back to college football. Following a cancelled spring, in addition to an interrupted off-season and fall camp, the Fighting Irish take the field this Saturday to begin the 2020 campaign. It'll be our first glimpse of organized Notre Dame football in 259 days. Brian Kelly heads into his 11th season with about as much [...]
Editor's Note: This article was written in the past long before several college football conferences decided to postpone or cancel their seasons. It's been sitting in the draft section of the site for a while and we might as well push it out to the masses before Saturday's opener. *** Once upon a time there [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns with a discussion about Tommy Rees, Notre Dame in the ACC, picking players to return in 2021, the Heisman Trophy, and the weirdness to come with college football in a pandemic. 1) The decision to part ways with Chip Long and install Tommy Rees as Offensive Coordinator was one of the [...]
Earlier this week we looked at Notre Dame's offense where a veteran quarterback and offensive line anchors that side of the ball. Now, we turn our focus to the defense where Clark Lea heads into his 3rd season as defensive coordinator and has a couple of blue-chip NFL prospects to build around for 2020. [players [...]
No open practices, no problem. How does one figure out what the Notre Dame depth chart is going to look like just under 2 weeks until the first game when no one has watched the team practice? Through logic, dear readers. Of course, it's impossible to know everything and if we're being honest even an [...]
We are going to push forward with college football content as portions of the sport are on track to play games soon, including our own Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Like many things this year, our pre-season poll is odd and strange. A bunch of teams aren't playing, no one is starting at the same [...]
If you missed part one don't forget to check out a pair of victories from Tyrone Willingham and Gerry Faust, among others. These non-legendary coaches are not done, either. There is still more bewildering wins to come! Who will fill out the remaining 6 games... #6 7-6 Notre Dame in 1997 24-6 Win vs. #13 [...]
The NBA is set to have a historic draft in a couple years. In the modern era, following a legal challenge by Spencer Haywood in 1971 that made its way to the Supreme Court, basketball players were allowed to jump directly to the NBA from high school although it was exceedingly rare. That changed in [...]
In roughly a month Notre Dame is scheduled to face Duke University on a football field for a real super official totally going to happen collegiate game. In order to prepare for such an event the Irish have begun practicing with their own water bottles and managers constantly wiping down the balls with disinfectant. The [...]
If the normal 2020 schedule were to be played another football program would be making its debut playing inside Notre Dame Stadium. Unfortunately, the Razorbacks from Arkansas will not get that opportunity this year as the SEC announced conference-only games this year. While researching something for a previously published piece I came across a throw-away [...]
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