Two years ago, Brian Kelly said ND was closer than you thought to beating Clemson. He was mostly branded a wishful thinker. He was right. Notre Dame proved that Saturday, stopping the 4th-longest regular season winning streak in college football history and beating back Clemson 47-40 in a win that sealed, once and for all, [...]
Finally, the day of days is upon us. What though the odds, Notre Dame will play Clemson in the biggest game at Notre Dame Stadium since 2005. The importance of this showdown has somehow remained a constant throughout a global pandemic and chaotic election season. In many ways, it felt like we would never arrive [...]
Breaking down a business-like win in Atlanta with an eye towards the showdown with Clemson - can the Irish expect some positive regression creating explosive plays and gaining turnovers? How does the efficiency of rushing and passing this year compare so far? And what else should Brian Kelly, Clark Lea, and Tommy Rees be thinking [...]
It was a little tougher than last week, but the Irish had little trouble with the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta. ND used a balanced offense and typically strong defense to overcome an early GT fumble return TD. Here's a few takeaways from an occasionally annoying, but mostly comfortable 31-13 win over Georgia Tech. 1. Balanced [...]
You'd be forgiven for not keeping a close eye on the ND basketball team over the last seven months. The same night the Irish knocked off Boston College in the opening round of the ACC Tournament*, Rudy Gobert tested positive for Covid-19, and sports essentially shut down for three months. While the games stopped, there's [...]
An anticipated shootout turned into a slow, grinding affair thanks to a low possession game, red zone struggles, long fields, and a lack of explosive plays from both teams. The advanced stats liked the Irish offensive performance more than most fans, and the defense impressed by creating havoc while simultaneously limiting big plays from a [...]
Notre Dame won a game Saturday against Louisville, 12-7. At least, I think they won. It can be hard to see sometimes on a day where Clemson - the one measure of this season - utterly blowtorched Georgia Tech 73-7 and invited some (more) pessimistic thoughts about whether the Irish can hang in when the [...]
Been way too long since we had one of these... I guess it would've been too easy if Notre Dame came off their lengthy layoff and blew the doors off Florida State from the get-go. But the Irish got themselves together eventually and put the screws to the Seminoles to pick up a 42-26 win [...]
Florida State is a bad team this year and we should win by a lot. I seriously considered ending this preview after that. But I'm pretty excited that we're (probably, don't want to jinx us) playing some football! Florida State (+21) at #5 Notre Dame Notre Dame Stadium South Bend, Indiana Date: Saturday, Oct 10, [...]
To date, Notre Dame has earned nothing but praise from the sports media for how it's handled its reporting of COVID-19 cases, and deservedly so. The school has released regular testing updates and been fully transparent about the results. It certainly helped that most of the news they delivered was good: Only a small handful [...]
The win probability matrices are back! I'm sure you were all devastated at the thought that we might not have them this year... I didn't have time this year to do a preseason post or a Week 1 post, but I do now and I'll try to keep these coming every week. SP+ can be [...]
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 [...]
The Irish labored to put away Duke in the season opener, struggling to find a consistent offensive rhythm and letting up some uncharacteristic explosive plays on defense early. It was reminiscent of last season's unsatisfying opener, with similar advanced stats - a decent win that felt closer than it needed to be and raising questions [...]
Welcome to the Duke Gameday Chat! A few years back we switched to Slack, a very popular chat and collaboration tool, for our gameday chat. Slack boasts much better functionality and ease of use, and it also works waaaay better on mobile devices. Reminder (or intro, if you’re new to it) on the ground rules: Real [...]
As we've continued to rack up markers on the chaotic demon bingo board that has been 2020, college football sometimes felt like an impossible dream. Yet here we stand, on the eve of a season destined to be odd but also an honest-to-God season. Stadiums will operate at 20% capacity. Tailgating is verboten at most [...]
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