Notre Dame is heading into an important off-season coming off a Rose Bowl loss and yet another season without a major trophy to add to the Gug. As Brian Kelly begins preparations for his 12th year with the program, the Irish stand at a bit of a crossroads. Four years after the Kelly 2.0 rebuild [...]
Well, that didn't take long. Late Monday night, the Fighting Irish received the commitment from graduate transfer quarterback Jack Coan in an effort to strengthen the roster ahead of a 2021 rebuild without Ian Book. A former Notre Dame lacrosse commit, Coan later blew up as a quarterback coming out of Sayville, New York, and [...]
Bowl games are inherently weird if you stop and think about them for too long. They are glorified exhibitions between teams that aren’t always on the same competitive level, especially in these G5 games. Even the G5 vs P5 games this year weren’t with teams that are normally in contention for the bowls (looks at [...]
Notre Dame lost another big game and got out-classed in many areas. In some other areas, the Irish stood firm and held their own. It was clearly not an ugly loss on the scoreboard and if you'd like it was surely somewhat of a moral victory to stay competitive with Alabama for stretches of the [...]
No surprises came out of New Year's Day and the Rose Bowl, as Notre Dame lost to Alabama 31-14 in a game whose outcome was pretty much settled very early. I have no artsy lead to this, so let's just get right into it: Notre Dame is way better than in 2012, and it didn't [...]
Since Notre Dame and Alabama met for the 2012 BCS National Championship a lot has transpired. The Irish will soon be picking their 4th new defensive coordinator as Clark Lea soon heads to Vanderbilt and they are already on their 4th new offensive coordinator since that fateful night in Miami. Alabama has changed offensive coordinators [...]
What is this? We're ranking the Notre Dame blue home uniforms from best to worst. For reference, check out the introduction post below to find out how we're grading each set and how we came to determine what is good and bad in Irish sartorial history. Ranking Notre Dame Football's Home Blue Uniforms: An Intro [...]
When a team is hovering around a three-touchdown underdog, a lot of match-up and scheme questions go out the window in favor of simple ones - How do the Irish stay competitive with a historic Alabama offense? What would the path to an upset victory even look like? What moves give Clark Lea and Tommy [...]
We are just a few days from a NCAA Football Championship semi-final appearance, and to read Notre Dame fans on Twitter and elsewhere, one would think we'd rather eat lint. This Notre Dame Fighting Irish team has given us a great and entertaining season, and they have done so under difficult circumstances. We owe it [...]
Notre Dame's uniforms are important, historic, and symbolic. This is especially true for the home blue uniforms that the program has worn for a majority of their games in South Bend. I am going to embark on a journey to rank the best home Notre Dame uniforms of all-time. A few caveats that will be [...]
Some people are really mad about the way the playoff teams were selected this year, namely that Notre Dame grabbed the 4th seed over the likes of Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Cincinnati, or even Coastal Carolina. Let me see if I can break down the biggest issues with college football and its handling of the post-season. [...]
It's amazing to look back and see that Notre Dame started 4-2 in 2005 and that felt like a breakthrough which led to Charlie Weis' 10-year extension completed a mere 56 days after his first game in South Bend with the team not even in the Top 10 when it was signed. That may be [...]
For the 3rd time in 9 years a Notre Dame player has won the Butkus Award as the best linebacker in the country. On Monday afternoon, redshirt junior Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah joined Manti Te'o and Jaylon Smith as the winners of this prestigious individual award. Also, for good measure incoming 2021 recruit Prince Kollie won the [...]
Notre Dame does not win a conference as Clemson wins their 7th straight ACC title, Alabama wins their 7th SEC title under Saban, and in general the favorites performed well during Championship Saturday. For a moment, it looked like it could be a drama-filled Sunday for the playoff committee rankings but not enough craziness happened [...]
"The Committee has great respect for Cincinnati." — RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 20, 2020 I think we can all agree that the “respect” shown towards Cincinnati is a transparent attempt to try and appease the college football fans (and certain media members) from thinking that Cincinnati had a chance to crack that top 4. He can [...]
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