Friends, it was a rough weekend out there for road teams. We had 10 home teams in our rankings take care of business, including 8 out of our top 10. That includes the resurgent LSU Tigers taking down Ole Miss inside Death Valley as Brian Kelly enters our rankings for the first time this season. [...]
So this was a brutal week for the Group of 5 teams. I officially am deeming it a G5 Blood Week. We saw four of the top ten teams go down and many different conference races tighten up. It’s why I’m slightly changing the format moving forward. The NY6 spot seemingly is going to go [...]
It wasn't pretty, it wasn't very exciting. Notre Dame did not take advantage of plenty of opportunities to blow UNLV out of South Bend on Saturday afternoon in a solid but unspectacular 44-21 win. The Irish now move to 4-3 on the season with a crucial trip coming up to Syracuse who just suffered their [...]
Murtaugh: Alright, I wanna talk about some- Me: I’d like to say something, that I have prepared…tonight. Hello, how bout that first half of the season? Guess that’s why they call it Notre Dame Football. Ha, Ha. https://youtu.be/pdSArUWt0fo Okay, I won’t do the whole speech by Alan from the 2009 movie The Hangover, but the [...]
Hope that the Irish had turned a corner after the 0-2 start quickly evaporated on Saturday night, as Notre Dame's horrific offensive effort led to a 2-point loss to a bad Stanford team. Drew Pyne played about as poorly as you can without throwing an interception, missing open shots at long gains, forcing passes late [...]
Last week it was a matter of survival for Alabama and they got it done. This week, the Tide finally came up short in the rivalry to the Volunteers as the entire state of Tennessee is still in a complete state of euphoria. You talk about a stadium having one giant release of joy and [...]
Hello and welcome back to the Group of 5 Top Ten for this week! We don’t need to dwell too much on the game Saturday night but there was some fun to be had in the Group of 5! Let’s dive into it; starting with this week’s top ten. Also Considered: Air Force, Boise State, [...]
I could throw a bunch of stats at you and no one would've believed Notre Dame lost this game. Stanford only scored 16 points. The Cardinal were held under 5 yards per play. Their top running back had 21 carries that were not successful. Stanford seemingly fumbled 9 times and recovered every ball on the [...]
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 [...]
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