Let me be completely honest. In the run-up to this game I was seriously considering picking Louisville in an upset or at least a really, really close game. Why? We felt due for a super weird game, Louisville can punch above their weight (especially offensively), and, well, college football brings us these things from time [...]
Notre Dame won a game Saturday against Louisville, 12-7. At least, I think they won. It can be hard to see sometimes on a day where Clemson - the one measure of this season - utterly blowtorched Georgia Tech 73-7 and invited some (more) pessimistic thoughts about whether the Irish can hang in when the [...]
Life comes at you fast. A quick turnaround from 2-10 to 8-5 in Scott Satterfield's 1st season with the Cardinals brought with it heightened expectations for Louisville in 2020. Thus far, this fall has been more of a nightmare for the Cardinals than climbing up the ACC power rankings. They opened their season with a [...]
Miami didn't show up and was drilled by Clemson, Alabama's defense nearly overshadowed their dominant offense in a bad way, Georgia clamped down late, and Florida let things slip away in College Station were just some of the highlights from this past weekend. It looks like we have a top tier of 3 teams with [...]
The Irish nearly matched their offensive efficiency against USF versus a far more talented opponent and threw in more explosive plays for good measure. Defensively, the effects of a two-week lull were far more visible as Clark Lea's typically steady unit was boom (with havoc and three-and-outs) and bust (giving up chunk plays). Confused? Check [...]
We're back (again)! That pesky thing called life got in the way for a bit, but thankfully I was able to carve out a little time today and get the probability matrices going again. TL,DR: It still effectively looks like a one-game season, but some opponents have the potential to be annoying. Also, the uncertainty [...]
After a long layoff a lot of rust was expected for a Notre Dame program coming off a serious Covid breakout in the days after the win over South Florida. Somewhat unexpectedly, it was the Irish offense that came out completely under control as the defense scrambled, tackled poorly, and put together a surprisingly poor [...]
I titled this article in a purposeful way. This past off-season former highly touted quarterback Phil Jurkovec transferred out of Notre Dame and joined Boston College where he was granted immediate eligibility for 2020. If you've read any articles about the situation in recent weeks it's usually couched in terms of Notre Dame "losing" Jurkovec [...]
In this early and weird season, the usual suspects from the South have jumped out to an early lead as the teams to beat nationally. During week 5 we witnessed favorites generally hold serve at home. However, not every team was so lucky! In the back end of the rankings we have a pretty big [...]
Notre Dame's 2021 recruiting class added its third four-star receiver today when Jayden Thomas announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6'1", 205-pound Georgian has long been rumored to be a Notre Dame lean, with several ties to the program. He trains with fellow 2021 Irish commits Deion Colzie and Cane Berrong and attends the [...]
This series is looking at past Notre Dame football National Championship seasons and imagining how things would have finished if a college football playoff system was in place at the time. We already looked at the 1973 title and today we look at Dan Devine's lone championship from 1977 following an early season stumble. Buckle [...]
Quenton Nelson is one of the rarest players in the National Football League. Through 2 seasons, he's been named 1st-team All-Pro for both years and is widely considered the best guard in the league barely through his 3rd season at the age of 24 years old. He has 2 years remaining on his rookie deal [...]
In a very welcome development, blue-chip WR Deion Colzie recommitted to Notre Dame today. He committed almost a year ago (which made us very happy) and decommitted about six months ago (which made us sad, no link but trust me), throwing his recruitment completely back open when he did. After his decommitment he picked up [...]
Coming in a little early this week since we are on a double bye week and this is our first poll since the action began in 2020. Everyone wants to play football now. After a couple of weeks of college football action, big conferences like the Big Ten and Pac-12 decided to reverse course and [...]
With Saturday unexpectedly opening up the viewing schedule, let's take a look at some of the best games this weekend for Notre Dame fans to tune into. It's not the world's most exciting slate, but there are a few matchups of future ACC opponents that will be telling for what type of challenge the Irish [...]
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