Notre Dame wrapped up practice no. 4 of spring this past Saturday and it was the first workout with full pads on so the media has yet to see the team with all their gear and live tackling. However, the media were present briefly for a workout this past Wednesday. Since it is strictly forbidden [...]

If you thought Nick Saban was going to move quietly into the night upon retirement, think again. Last week, the former Alabama head coach went to Washington, D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion on the future of student-athlete NIL rights. You've probably already seen numerous sound bites from his comments but I wanted to [...]

Notre Dame opened up spring practice on Thursday, March 7th to an assembled crowd of reporters, friends, and associated staff. The players were in shorts and helmets with no tackling but that will not deter the hype from growing, as per allowed in section 7.4-24 of the Off-season College Football Fandom Manual™. Since the school [...]

Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #6 [...]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish open up spring practice this Thursday and will take to the IAC on campus 69 days after the 40-8 shellacking of Oregon State in the Sun Bowl. The vibe check is positive as the program comes into the off-season out-scoring its last 3 opponents 141-38, but despite a decent 70% [...]

As the tumultuous world of college sports keeps spinning and we approach another landmark season of change we wanted to turn our attention to one of the biggest story's coming up this summer. Yes, we are closing in on the return of a college football video game as EA Sports College Football 25 is set [...]

Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #8 [...]

Five Wide Fullbacks returns for the second week in a row, what a treat for our readers. On today's edition of 5WF we are tackling a joint advisory committee of the country's two most powerful conferences, Chad Bowen's decision to stay in South Bend, the future of a pair of Notre Dame assistants, future Heisman [...]

Welcome back to the latest edition of Five Wide Fullbacks, America's most enthralling question and answer segment in the college football internet space. Today we look at the 2024 Irish schedule, Harbaugh in the NFL, the best and worst new head coach hires, the rumored Gug expansion, and we wonder whether Notre Dame football players [...]

Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #9 [...]

Let me tell you that with the NIL era this is not an easy preview to write anymore with rosters changing daily all across the nation. Here at Notre Dame, I had to postpone writing this as transfers in and out have been happening nonstop for weeks. It could be worse. A similar article written [...]

There were some whispers following the CFB semi-finals that Nick Saban might walk away but they were hard to believe and brushed off in most places. On Wednesday night, news broke that it was actually happening. At the age of 72, one of the college football titans is officially hanging it up. The 2024 college [...]

Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #10 [...]

So we've come to the end of the 2023 college football season and since we like to confuse everyone for the future we will now play the 2024 College Football National Championship with a new year attached to the name of the game. It was a long and twisty road for both Michigan and Washington [...]

Welcome to 2024. In years past I would publish a yards per play prediction for each Notre Dame season. Turns out, I forgot to do this for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Heading into the 2021 season I predicted the team would finish with a +1.07 YPP differential and they would ultimately finish with a [...]