I've done the math and on average just over 4 teams per season in college football start out in the AP pre-season Top 10 and do not finish inside the Top 10 over the last 5 seasons. I'm going to use these teams as my guide to figure out who will be the overrated teams [...]
Out of the 14 passes that Peacock graced us with a decent angle for, the most common concept by far was Snag (6/14). Snag is a passing concept that is used at pretty much all levels. Snag can be separated into two categories, two man Snag and three man Snag. The origin of this concept [...]
The official depth chart should be coming out soon as the 2023 Notre Dame football season begins soon and the Irish make preparations for an overseas battle against Navy. Today, we will take a look at the expected depth chart as well as other areas of focus and intrigue throughout the roster. As usual, it's [...]
In less than two weeks, we will be watching real-life college football again. A while ago, I asked our writer's room about their favorite college football theme songs which immediately set off a wave of nostalgia. Since we are fast approaching the season, I thought it would be a fun exercise to look back on [...]
College football begins this month, let us rejoice. During the off-season as I was working on the top 50 college football games to watch for 2023 it made me ponder the biggest story lines in what will be an end to an era for the sport. Now, I present the top 30 storylines to watch [...]
Have you ever looked at a snap and wondered why it was such a success or failure? In this series I hope to try to explain and give names to the common plays that a Notre Dame Tv (or Peacock I suppose) broadcast can easily decode. Let's first start with the most common runs that [...]
Well, recent events certainly changed the dynamic of this article which began several weeks ago. For the sake of this thorough study I won't be including any new Power 5 programs, and I'm not sure anyone would even include the likes of Cincinnati, BYU, or Houston in this discussion anyway. You could simply list the [...]
A 'rivalry forged in history' says the press release from Under Armour. On Sunday morning, the Ireland Collection was released for Notre Dame and Navy's game later this month in the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin. The release features alternate uniforms for both programs in addition to several t-shirts, hoodies, and polos commemorating the event. [...]
Brian Newberry is the new head coach at Navy after being the defensive coordinator for the Middies since 2019. Their defense has been pretty good over his tenure but the more intriguing bit is that outside of a 5-year period when Paul Johnson left to coach Georgia Southern this will be the first time since [...]
Maybe there is hope for Under Armour after all. On Sunday, Notre Dame sent out a teaser for the Ohio State game with the #IrishWearGreen hashtag alluding to some sort of Jerry Maguire movie reference and possibly new green jerseys. This Monday morning, the Fighting Irish definitely committed to the bit with a full comedic [...]
Last Monday we tackled the Notre Dame offense ahead of fall camp, if you missed that coverage you can read it HERE. Today, we look at the defense and an important year for numerous reasons which we will cover below. The Irish defense has been the steadier leader on the team compared to the offense [...]
The offseason deep dives continue with the Irish passing offense, a unit that also struggled with consistency with Drew Pyne starting ten games. The passing game sometimes feasted on overmatched defenses (UNC, BYU, USC), but more commonly struggled with defenses whether opponents were similarly talented or overmatched. Defensive coordinators often dared Pyne and the Irish [...]
Notre Dame opens up the 2nd fall camp of the Marcus Freeman era on Wednesday, July 26th with the Week 0 game in Ireland against Navy quickly approaching. As of this writing, just 40 days away until kickoff in Dublin! It feels like the middle of summer (well technically it is) but Irish football is [...]
For the past couple of years this article was the top out of conference and cross-divisional games to watch in the upcoming season. For 2023, the ACC and Mountain West are dropping their division format, plus the Conference-USA and Pac-12 did the same last year. That's in addition to the AAC (since 2020) and Big [...]
Georgia is going for 3 straight National Championships this fall, a chance to be the only team in modern history to pull off the feat. Officially (a definition that is very loosely defined in the history of college football) only 1 team has won 3 straight titles, Minnesota from 1934 through 1936. Many other programs [...]
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