Last off-season was a quiet market for new head coaching candidates at the power program level with only 6 new jobs filled, and the focus largely spent on Bill Belichick's sucking media attention away from everyone else. Heading into 2026 we have 16(!) new head coaches at power programs, which doesn't include the resurrected Pac-12 [...]

Notre Dame football unveiled their 2026 Shamrock Series uniforms on Wednesday morning via a near 2-minute sharply produced video HERE heavily describing the ties between the Fighting Irish and Green Bay Packers NFL organization. It confirmed the leaks recently that the team will be wearing altered navy blue jerseys when the season opens up against [...]

You'll hear this a million times this year as Notre Dame opens up the season with very winnable games. In our last post covering the beginning of the second half of the season, things start to ramp up--especially with the level of opponent quarterbacks. The ending of the campaign could see some challenge at this [...]

No alternate or one-off uniforms here. This is a series discussing the worst standard uniform changes in modern college football. The Lead Up If you're under 35 you may remember Cam Cameron as the offensive coordinator in the NFL and then with the Les Miles LSU Tigers. What you may not recall is Cameron playing [...]

The first two installments in this series probably weren't read by that many people and highlight the poor schedule strength for the Fighting Irish to open the 2026 season. A 6-0 start is expected, perhaps even demanded in the current climate surrounding Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman. Today's article is different, this is where the [...]

Notre Dame will be hoping to enter this portion of the schedule at 3-0, although the projected best quarterback of the first half of 2026 is expected in the opener at Lambeau Field. You can read more about that HERE. In our second article today, Notre Dame faces a Big Ten rival and a pair [...]

Notre Dame is expected to open up the 2026 season with a very manageable schedule, some would even call it quite easy. Not so fast! Does does some danger lurk in September during a time when Marcus Freeman has shown he's the most vulnerable as head coach of the Irish? Today, we'll take a look [...]

The Blue-Gold Game coming right during the NFL Draft was yet another example of how the college football calendar continues to frustrate with its key moments squished together. With the spring game in the rearview mirror, here's a review of the the NFL selection process from a week and a half ago. Notre Dame Draft [...]

The scoreboard read 41-40 on Saturday afternoon as the Blue team defeated the Gold team in the latest edition of the Notre Dame spring game. The complicated scoring system and lack of real tackling early on made the game difficult to watch at times, but that's par for the course with most spring games. Great [...]

For the 95th time in history the Notre Dame spring game is here. On Saturday afternoon from inside Notre Dame Stadium the Blue-Gold Game kicks off as Marcus Freeman enters a pivotal 5th season with the Irish. The weather looks like it'll cooperate with the forecast giving us temperatures in the low-to-mid 60's with some [...]

The 91st edition of the NFL Draft begins this week from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The festivities will be taking place on the North Shore in downtown Pittsburgh next to the stadium no longer called Heinz Field. They'll also be using space across the river(s) at Point State Park, as well. This is the first time since [...]

I don't know exactly when this tradition began. At some point in recent years, Notre Dame has held an intra-squad scrimmage near the end of spring practice that has been branded as The Jersey Scrimmage. As the media has been shut out from most of spring practices in recent years--and the Blue-Gold Game simultaneous becomes [...]

No alternate or one-off uniforms here. This is a series discussing the worst standard uniform changes in modern college football. The Lead Up Paul Johnson was hired at Georgia Tech in 2008 and in his first season he moved the program away from a shiny Vegas gold to a deeper and darker mustard gold throughout [...]