There are only 2 remaining undefeated teams in the nation. Alabama has been featured in roughly 25% (not even much of an exaggeration) of ESPN GameDay matchups and anyway the Tide have their customary FCS opponent prior to the Iron Bowl. Instead, the WWL is ready for some MACtion and headed to Kalamazoo, Michigan! Enemy [...]
A rare stress-free win for Notre Dame in 2016 reviewed using the Five Factors that lead to success in football. The Irish keep small hopes for bowl eligibility alive for another week. Confused? Check out the advanced-stats glossary here. Garbage time returns for only the third time this season! The first half was meaningful, the second [...]
Well, that was rather easy. Not since the 2012 Wake Forest game has Notre Dame won a game by such a large margin, and as we sit here today that season feels eons ago. Perhaps the best part for our collective blood pressure was that the game was never in doubt and quickly out of [...]
Not a lot is going right for Notre Dame this season, but clearly this program owns Army. The Irish ran the ball at will against the Black Knights, averaging over six yards per carry. No one player ran for 100 yards, but Tarean Folston had a big game, with 13 carries for 84 yards and [...]
Three games left in the season with the chances for a bowl game on life support. Coming off the loss to Navy instead of an injury report centered around ankles and knees it's concussions still ruling the day for the Irish. Both Drue Tranquill and Julian Love left the game last weekend with brain injuries. [...]
When 1990 Notre Dame alum and current West Point athletic director Boo Corrigan hired Jeff Monken in late 2013 it was seen as a coup among the smaller college football schools. Monken, coming off a successfull 38-16 run at Georgia Southern, had been tabbed as the next great triple option coach and was linked to [...]
The college football season is beginning to wind down. For us Irish fans, thanks goodness right? We're now in that weird part of the season where a few of the big national rivalries are just around the corner and most of the country is busy playing out the string with their league games. Enemy Watch [...]
The team with the better offense played more aggressively and won the game. That should be Notre Dame, but instead Will Worth and Navy executed their gameplan to perfection, while the Irish defense floundered. Settling for field goals has fans feeling like Jack Swarbrick is settling with Brian Kelly as head coach. Confused? Check out [...]
For large portions of the year the offensive play calling for Notre Dame has been inconsistent and at times downright puzzling. It’s difficult to pick out a unifying concept or a core philosophy in the way that the Irish call plays. In fact, one could almost envision the Notre Dame play calling process to be [...]
It was the most Navy game imaginable. Eat clock, keep the Irish offense off the field, execute, get a little help from the refs, and wait for Notre Dame to mess up. The Midshipmen played their hand fabulously. There will be plenty of criticism of the Irish in due course but first it needs to [...]
The progression of DeShone Kizer since arriving at Notre Dame has been fascinating. At first, a modestly recruited low 4-star to forgotten backup. After a high-profile transfer suddenly a backup, after an injury suddenly the starter. This off-season momentum picked up for Kizer as a top NFL Draft pick. What an amazing and meteoric rise! [...]
WatchND highlights: My first instant reaction in the last three games and I get to write about another one of these. Fine. There is no excuse for kicking the field goal to go down 1 against Navy with seven minutes to go when you know they have no interest in scoring again. There isn't. It [...]
We're headed down the home stretch of the season, a time where injuries are beginning to pop up as others are continue to fight to get healthy. It's also that special part of the season (awesome scheduling!) when the Irish have to play triple option teams in back-to-back games which is going to naturally tweak [...]
The revival of Navy football rolls on in 2016. Twelve years, yes twelve years, since Paul Johnson turned around a 2-10 team into a 10-2 team within two falls the Midshipmen continue to cruise through college football. Now in their second year of conference membership Navy is currently 11-2 in the AAC and would've been [...]
There's plenty of room in the late afternoon to spend time with your loved ones. For those of you who like early kickoffs remember Notre Dame versus Navy will begin at 11:30 AM ET. For those of you out west grab some coffee Saturday morning and then have fun during the entire afternoon. This is [...]
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