Notre Dame is entering an absolutely massive season for the defensive line with question marks all over the place. That will offer us a whole lot to talk about today. Will the Irish be moving some players around? Adding more transfers? Truly adopting more of a 3-man front? Marcus Freeman and Al Washington, in conjunction [...]

Well, that certainly escalated quickly. In the span of just over 24 hours, Tommy Rees went from being mentioned in the news about interviewing for the Alabama offensive coordinator position, to flying down to Tuscaloosa, and then reportedly accepting the position on Friday evening eastern time. So ends a topsy-turvy coaching career at Notre Dame [...]

Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]

I quite often start these off-season depth chart articles with the offensive line because with so many players involved there's a ton talk about. For 2023, it's no exception. Jarrett Patterson departs after what felt like a nine-year career with the Irish. He had been with Notre Dame so long that he was part of [...]

Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]

The Football Bowl Subdivision (do we need to re-name this in the playoff era? I vote yes.) saw 24 new head coaches hired this off-season, which includes a couple of interim tags that were removed for the full-time gig back in December. Remember, the new Big 12 debuts this season which is going to change [...]

Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]

This article last year had a lot of conflicting feelings as the entertaining and productive Kyren Williams was moving on to the NFL leaving behind a huge hole in the running backs room. But at the end of 2021 there were a lot of bad rushing stats left behind and Jeff Quinn was not retained [...]

SoFi Stadium opened up for the 2020 football season, hosted Super Bowl LVI last February, and is set to host the college football National Championship on Monday night. We are concluding the 9th College Football Playoffs and the penultimate edition before the sport adopts an expanded 12-team field with the 2024 season. The history of [...]

It's another off-season of challenge for Notre Dame as they attempt to bring in transfers to the football team while working around a stricter framework (not quite as bad as Stanford, but still) of academics. As of this writing, the Fighting Irish have already brought in 3 (scholarship) transfers this off-season and a ton of [...]

Notre Dame picked up big news for 2023 as it broke today that Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is expected to grad transfer to Notre Dame for his final season of eligibility (per IrishSportsDaily, Irish Illustrated/247, and Blue & Gold Illustrated/On3, among others). Hartman was a 2018 3-star (0.8626) recruit for Wake Forest and was the [...]

They had us for most of the 1st half, I'm not going to lie. On Friday in Jacksonville, Notre Dame came out awfully rusty, looking a bit disinterested, while South Carolina was throwing the kitchen sink at the Irish early in the game. At one point, the Gamecocks led 21-7 and 24-10 to give me [...]

Notre Dame finished the regular season with USC and will complete the bowl season facing the other USC from the southeast. Friday afternoon live from Jacksonville, the Irish will face South Carolina in the 78th edition of the Gator Bowl. ***Gator Bowl Mini-Preview*** This will be the first time Notre Dame and the Gamecocks meet [...]

Recently, the NCAA ruled that players will not lose any eligibility by participating in this post-season of college football. With the amount of opt-outs and transfers growing every year I would expect this to become a permanent rule at some point. For Notre Dame, it won't change anything since the only true freshman player who [...]

As we await the drama of Signing Day and the Gator Bowl it's time to fire up another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. Five questions, five answers. This week we are taking a look at next year's Heisman race, an underrated Irish opponent for next fall, the future of NFL Draft picks from South Bend, [...]