Today was far less about Notre Dame/Stanford than a bunch of other games with playoff implications for Notre Dame. Almost every single one went badly except for the Irish's game, an easy win that sent ND into whatever postseason it ends up in on a 10-game win streak, each of which with a 99.4% or [...]
I haven't written for this site in quite a while, but none of the other writers wanted to preview this game - can you blame them? - so I volunteered to step in. This is a silly game between an awful Stanford team without a real coach and a Notre Dame team coming off a [...]
Not long ago fans were debating if Jeremiyah Love would get an invite to New York City for the 2025 Heisman ceremony with many believing it probably wasn't going to happen. Fast forward to the eve of the regular season concluding and suddenly Love is an astonishing 3rd across most sportsbooks in the United States [...]
I thought about writing up a draft of this post earlier this morning, assuming it would just be a matter of filling in some details. But then my kid wanted to watch the Knuckles series, so that went by the wayside. The Knuckles series had far more drama than Saturday's game, as Notre Dame utterly [...]
Hello 18S! Quick intro: I’m Mike, and as my handle suggests, I graduated from Notre Dame undergrad in 2011, and stayed on for three more years at Notre Dame Law School. As a tax attorney, I enjoy scenario planning and risk-adjusted thinking, and that’s what brings us to the topic of this article: what’s best [...]
Find yourself a partner who cares as much about you as Pat Narduzzi cares about tweaking Notre Dame. A few days after inexplicably saying his team's matchup against the Irish didn't matter if they won the conference title (which they're not presently in position to do, worth noting), Narduzzi rode two of several ridiculous penalty [...]
The Notre Dame fan base has treated the Navy game largely the same each year under Marcus Freeman (including his year as defensive coordinator): Brief moments of panic early in the game that this is going to be, as some of us put it, the annual trip to the dentist's office, followed by a fairly [...]
Anchors Aweigh! It’s Navy Week That 12-minute 3rd Quarter Boston College Drive last week sure was fun, huh? […]
There were so many terrible things about Notre Dame's 25-10 victory over Boston College Saturday that I'm not sure which one I hated the most. Let's take them in chronological order: Kicking This is an absolute traveshamockery. A presumably fed-up Marcus Freeman benched Noah Burnette after he doinked another PAT and went for 2 after [...]
Notre Dame could've used a bit more chaos in week 9 of the college football calendar. While resting during the bye, a few opportunities for key upsets arose but many of them didn't come through. Besides a shuffle at the top not a ton has changed in our rankings as the Irish prepare for their [...]
It was important Notre Dame won tonight's game for a lot of reasons, but a statement of intent for the program was in order. Play USC, beat USC, and beat USC playing the kind of football they refuse to play. Notre Dame eventually stopped screwing around and beat the Trojans into submission Saturday, 34-24, leaving [...]
Earlier this year, I wrote about USC's attempt to weasel out of the Notre Dame rivalry and their slow self-immolation in the face of conference realignment. In that, I wrote: Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: there is no way this arrangement works out long-term for USC. They are screwing their fans, their players, and [...]
The weather is finally starting to turn in the north and Midwest after an unseasonably warm September and early October. We should get one last gasp this weekend though, as the weather is looking pretty warm in South Bend and beyond. We are treated to four separate ranked vs. ranked matchups this week, a tough [...]
Is it just me, or was this the first game of the season that had real 2024 vibes? Notre Dame tripped over itself a few times early Saturday, and we had a good old-fashioned ref show late in the first half (I'll leave discussion of that to the comments), but things calmed down after halftime [...]
A game neither team can afford to lose if they want to repeat last season's success, but a team one must win and effectively eliminate from the mystical magical imaginary CFP race. I'm guessing neither one of these teams thought this was the game stakes when it was first scheduled and even back in August. [...]
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