Sometimes football isn't complicated. Sometimes the other team just has more dudes than you and you can't beat them. That's pretty much what happened Monday night as Ohio State ended a dream Notre Dame run with a 34-23 title game win that was not as close as that, but was painfully close to maybe being [...]
As we approach next Monday's national championship game pitting our beloved Notre Dame against Ohio State, there's one thing that needs to be made plain. While us ND fans want this championship badly - and I'd argue of the fan bases that at least nominally have reason to expect to compete for titles, no fan [...]
*Note: this was written before Eric posted his own long-term perspective (which you should check out here) so there will be some overlapping thoughts. So this is what we were promised when we became fans of Notre Dame football. If you're like me, we grew up on stories about the Notre Dame Magic™ and what [...]
My first thought after Drew Allar winged the ball out of bounds to secure a 27-24 Notre Dame victory over Penn State, the second New Year's 6 win for Marcus Freeman in a week, was pretty simple: How did that happen? TEAM GLORY ☘️ ORANGE BOWL CHAMPIONS #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/CbqnL8fYTG — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) January [...]
First, let's get this out of the way now: I cried. Thirty-one years. Thirty-one long years of not winning these games. Of coming up short. Of drawing the best possible opponent. Of chuckleheads on the Internet pretending losing games meant they shouldn't have been in them. It all got swept away in less than one [...]
All week, I couldn't shake the thought that Notre Dame was going to win comfortably over Indiana. (And they did. 27-17, final score, and it wasn't that close.) It's not the Hoosiers' fault. The idea some will probably start trumpeting that IU didn't belong in this playoff because their schedule was too weak was, in [...]
The last time I sat down and went full stream of consciousness for your entertainment, the Irish had just suffered their worst loss in the post-Holtz era. People were pissed. Three months later, they are riding a 10-game winning streak and get to host the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff game. It's been quite the [...]
The Irish won their biggest game of the season knocking off the hated UConn Huskies 79-68 last Thursday night at Purcell Pavilion. This marks the third top-5 win of the season and should go a long way during seeding conversations come March. While every win over UConn should be held and cherished, this one was [...]
The Thanksgiving period was a mixed bag for Niele Ivey's Notre Dame Women's Basketball team. The Irish visited LA the weekend before the holiday where they ran Southern Cal off the court in the biggest game of the season to date. Unfortunately, the good vibes lasted less than a week. ND spent Thanksgiving in the [...]
Notre Dame fans entered the weekend with stars in their eyes and visions of the coveted #5 seed in the College Football Playoff. Just about nothing that had to happen for that to transpire took place, and instead the Irish were seeded #7 (with a true rank of #5 by the committee) and matched up [...]
For the first time in a long while, it wasn't easy. But in the end, Notre Dame's defense, after a very shaky three-plus quarters, delivered when it mattered most and helped the Irish secure a 49-35 win over rival USC, a berth in the College Football Playoff, and a home game in said playoff. Led [...]
It was yet another day where the biggest issue Notre Dame fans faced was annoyance at a garbage time touchdown by the other team, and the Irish walloped previously unbeaten Army 49-14 to move one win away from hosting a playoff game. Pretty much everything was hitting on all cylinders for the Irish, except for [...]
...The Irish once again rode into Yankee Stadium. Two games away from their ultimate end goal of a College Football Playoff berth. Two hard tests, for very different reasons. Let's dive into the first one taking place tomorrow night. Army vs Notre Dame (-14.5) Yankee Stadium The Bronx, NY Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024 Time: [...]
Results wise, the opening two weeks of the Irish Women's Hoops season have gone about as well as we could have hoped. Four wins by an average of 42 points are a decent way to kick off any campaign. Taking a closer look, we saw Olivia Miles earn ACC and National Player of the Week [...]
I don't know if I've ever seen a team ignited by a flag before, but that's what happened Saturday as an arcane rules interpretation screwed up the coolest fake punt of all time and pissed Notre Dame off enough to finish delivering a 3-touchdown second-quarter rage bomb in a 35-14 win over Virginia. First up, [...]
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