Anyone stupid enough to get sucked in to anything after the Marshall game (I include myself among this group) probably deserved to see what they saw today. Any prayer of this being a remotely successful season went up in smoke Saturday as Notre Dame lost a pathetic 16-14 game to a Stanford team that hadn't [...]
Notre Dame picked up yet another electric playmaker in its 2023 class when running back Jeremiyah Love announced his commitment today. The 6'0", 190 pound Missourian is fresh off his second visit to South Bend; he was in town for one of the big June official visit weekends and just came back for the Marshall [...]
A few weeks ago in this very space, with Notre Dame sitting at 1-2 after a shocking loss to Marshall and a drama-filled close win over Cal, we said the offseason warm fuzzies for the Freeman Era felt like "a distant memory." Now the Irish are 3-2 after a sloppy but dominant win over North [...]
For a second straight week, Notre Dame played 30 minutes of dominant football only to see consistency waver and things start falling apart late. Drew Pyne put up his strongest statistical performance of the year, wisely relying on Michael Mayer to dominate the BYU defense. The Irish defense was phenomenal for the first half, then [...]
In our 18S preseason prediction survey, receiver depth was voted as the biggest concern heading into the season. Between Kevin Austin’s decision to turn pro, Avery Davis’s preseason injury, and some spotty recruiting at the position the last few years, the top receiving threats are Michael Mayer (a tight end), Lorenzo Styles (a true sophomore), [...]
We've had some wild weeks so far in college football 2022 and this past Saturday didn't quite match some of the highlights of other weekends to date. We saw A&M nearly toppling Alabama playing their backup quarterback, Brian Kelly taken to the woodshed, UCLA showing their back on the national scene (for now, at least), [...]
Hello and welcome back to the G5 Top Ten! We had some interesting results this entire week. From Wednesday onwards, the teams in the mix for the Top Ten was constantly changing. This is how it landed after a fun Week 6. Also Considered: Toledo, Air Force, Boise St, Troy, UAB Week 6 Recap Headliners [...]
Notre Dame was close to blowing out BYU on Saturday evening inside Allegiant Stadium. Yet, the Irish went into halftime leading by only 12 points and dealt with the Cougars trying to complete a wild comeback in the second half. The tide turned very quickly against Notre Dame but credit to the team for showing [...]
If the Marshall loss was a bellwether of potential imminent disaster for the Marcus Freeman era, there were a lot of signs in Saturday's 28-20 win over BYU that things are, as the great Lou Brown said, "startin' to come together". It wasn't perfect, but especially in the 22-0 scoring run that briefly gave ND [...]
Bronco Mendenhall left BYU for Virginia after the 2015 season in a bit of a weird career move, has since left UVA under weirder circumstances, all while current Cougars head coach Kalani Sitake has flourished in his 7th season at his alma mater. Sitake came out of the gate fairly strong at BYU going 9-4 [...]
The bottom 6 teams in our top 20 poll from last week all lost opening the door to several new programs entering this week's poll. At the other end of the rankings we had a few close matchups led by Missouri going down to the wire in a near-upset of Georgia in front of a [...]
Welcome back to the 18S G5 Top Ten! After a mental bye week, the first top ten of the season is here! After a little more of a months worth of games we have a fresh top ten! With no real NY6 contender emerging, this could be the most fun G5 season since we've been [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns with Notre Dame having the week off resting up for their trip to Las Vegas. In this week's edition we'll discuss re-ranking our top 25 Notre Dame players, the Heisman race, the post-season picture after a third of the season, the remaining Irish schedule difficulty, and if it is wise to [...]
The Notre Dame offense came to life against a terrible North Carolina defense in Chapel Hill, and the defense shut down the 15th ranked offense in F+ for a large middle stretch of the game, allowing the Irish to pull away from the Heels. Drew Pyne found his rhythm, the rushing attack gashed UNC, and [...]
The Notre Dame faithful are about to descend upon Sin City (or the Holy Land, depending on how one looks at the world). Irish fans of all ages, shapes and sizes are eagerly awaiting this Shamrock Series event in Vega$ against BYU. As a courtesy to the fans who are making their travel plans, we [...]
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