Notre Dame started quick on Friday afternoon in El Paso and never looked back while burying Oregon State in the 2023 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. There were some minor struggles along the way but the Beavers offense never mounted near enough of a challenge to keep the game competitive. In the end, Marcus Freeman [...]
Marcus Freeman has gotten pretty good at the 'crush teams you're supposed to crush' thing, hasn't he? No offense to Oregon State, which wasn't remotely the same team today in a 40-8 beating at the hands of the Irish than it was during the season. Due to opt-outs, transfers, etc. the Beavers' offense was effectively [...]
When the Sun Bowl kicks off this Friday afternoon in El Paso it'll have been 34 days since Notre Dame's last football game. A lot has happened since then. The Irish fired their wide receivers coach, hired a new wideout coach, hired a new strength and conditioning coach, a bunch of transfers committed, current players [...]
On Wednesday during Marcus Freeman's ESD press conference he stated that there was no timeline on making a new offensive coordinator hire and that the school would be doing a national search. I joked in the writer's Slack that if this was anything like his earlier comments about wanting to keep all of the coach's [...]
After a couple weeks of recruiting and interest from both parties, Notre Dame has officially added quarterback transfer Riley Leonard from Duke on Monday. The rising true senior originally from Fairhope, Alabama on the shores of Mobile Bay had started 21 games for the Blue Devils and looked primed for a big junior year before [...]
You probably shouldn't listen to me if you enjoy bowl games. For years, I've been pushing the narrative that the bowl games are slowly becoming obsolete and that college football needs to do something about it. Now, things are accelerating far more quickly as we zoom towards the 12-team playoff era and I don't see [...]
I was at my in-laws this past Sunday afternoon having lunch to celebrate my father-in-law's 73rd birthday. As the kids sat down to eat first I was standing in the doorway from the dining room into the living room watching the ESPN unveiling of the final college football rankings. It dragged on and on. Finally, [...]
After a banner day for the ACC in which undefeated Florida State got snubbed from the playoffs and the league scrambled for several hours to fill their bowl slots, the Fighting Irish finally landed in El Paso for the post-season. It'll be Notre Dame vs. Oregon State in the legendary Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. [...]
The NCAA transfer portal for college football opens up this Monday, December 4th and will remain open all the way through Tuesday, January 2nd. As a reminder, graduate transfers are allowed to enter the transfer portal at any time while players who have their head coach fired or leave the program have a 30-day window [...]
You want some good news about the Irish football program? Well boy howdy do we have some for you. Potential five-star safety Ivan Taylor became the second member of Notre Dame's 2025 defensive back class today when he announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6"0", 174-pound Floridian bears a last name that many fans [...]
Our weeks-long wait until the bowl game is upon us. For this blog, it's the first step towards pivoting towards off-season content. As I searched for some ideas I got to wondering what the ACC is going to look like in a transformative season for college football in 2024. That's normal, right? Who isn't thinking [...]
The regular season is over (except Army-Navy of course) and now we await the concluding championship weekend before the last 4-team playoff, accompanied by the weird bowl system, finishes off this 2023 campaign. Here's the latest 18S Top 20 Poll. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM RECORD NEXT 1 Georgia 12-0 vs. Alabama [...]
It wasn't always pretty on Saturday evening in Palo Alto, although Notre Dame got the bad taste out of its mouth from last year with a definitive victory over Stanford to cap off the 2023 regular season. I eschewed the Pac-12 Network nonsense this weekend, gave Fubo the stiff arm like I was Javaontae Jean-Baptiste, [...]
When this season began, I doubt any Notre Dame fan was too concerned with watching the Pac-12 Network, but this is what you get for losing a couple of games you shouldn't have. Notre Dame sent the Pac-12 Network's football coverage out in predictable fashion Saturday, routing Stanford 56-23, though they took an annoyingly circuitous [...]
Some of you may remember that last year I savaged - appropriately, I would say - the Stanford Cardinal in the contemporary game preview post. Stanford came into last year's game 1-4, with the one win coming over FCS Colgate, and allowing 38.5 points per game to FBS opponents. They would finish the season allowing [...]
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