Well, that escalated quickly. This past Wednesday a handful of reports surfaced that a committee was working on a plan to expand the College Football Playoff and by the early afternoon on Thursday, June 10th the CFP Working Group came out with details on a proposal that would enlarge the post-season to 12 teams. This [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Pac-10 season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 Big 12 season. This conference has many heavy hitters; with defending National Champions, [...]
This offseason we’ll be breaking down the performance of each unit – passing and rushing offense and defense – with a look ahead to 2021 and what this means for the Irish. Next is the Notre Dame passing game, which overachieved in Ian Book's final year thanks to a mini-leap at QB, a veteran receiving [...]
The college football world is abuzz with newfound energy this week, as the NCAA's COVID-related dead period finally ended when the calendar flipped to June. Some schools even hosted a basketball-style "Midnight Madness" and welcomed recruits into their facilities as the clock chimed its way into the new month. We can understand the excitement, given [...]
When you think of a really bad offensive gameplan under Brian Kelly which game pops into your head? The hurricane game against NC State? Several others from 2016? Maybe the Tulsa game from 2010? Arizona State or USC from 2014? May I submit the loss to Michigan in 2013? People think I shouldn't do this [...]
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the freshmen of the 2020 recruiting class, the impact they made last fall, and their immediate future with Notre Dame. Today we'll look at the defense where there's a distinctly different feel to a smaller group that, outside of one player, didn't make a big impact [...]
Due to the pandemic technically none of the 2020 freshmen exhausted a year of eligibility, although in practice of course many players will not be staying at Notre Dame for the next 5 seasons or maybe even playing college football for that long. At any rate, every 2020 freshmen will be featured today for the [...]
If Barry Sanders isn't considered the greatest college football player of all-time his 1988 Heisman-winning campaign may be the single greatest season in the history of the sport. For the record, ESPN ranked Sanders merely the 9th best player in college history during their celebration of the 150th anniversary of the game a year ago. [...]
The board has been fairly quiet as most prospects have focused on packing their suitcases for the end of our long national winter the dead period on June 1st. As we mentioned last time, Notre Dame has an absolutely monster month of visits set up, for 2022 and 2023 prospects, and every other school has done [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 SEC season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 Pac-10 season. Coming off one of its successful seasons, with one major star [...]
This offseason we'll be breaking down the performance of each unit - passing and rushing offense and defense - with a look ahead to 2021 and what this means for the Irish. First up is the Notre Dame run game, which brings back a loaded running back room but is working through a complete overhaul [...]
Recently, Notre Dame saw another player who left early selected in the NFL Draft. Although the Irish program is creeping towards 20 players all-time who left early for the Draft they have seen a major uptick in the Brian Kelly era following an extremely long dry spell. Full disclosure, we're using the traditional and strictest [...]
Recently, we journeyed back to the first big home game of the 2012 season and a copious amount of turnovers from Michigan. Today, we'll venture back to 2012 again and the regular season finale in Los Angeles. A game which, at the conclusion of, I teared up quite a bit. I'll bet many of you [...]
Notre Dame added another quality tight end to its 2022 class today when Holden Staes announced for the Irish. The 6'5", 230 pound Georgian committed to Penn State last summer but re-opened his recruitment in February. This wasn't a case of second thoughts after his recruitment blew up, as he already had almost all his [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Big Ten season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 SEC season. The SEC isn't as much of a monolith it would [...]
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