Nearly everyone saw regression coming along the Notre Dame offensive line in 2018. The Irish lost a pair of 1st round NFL picks and even with blue-chippers ready to take over it was bound to be a difficult transition. Add in the Alex Bars season-ending injury in game 5, a new offensive line coach, and [...]
Clemson just won the title with one of the more dominant seasons in recent memory. Nick Saban and Alabama have owned much of the decade, and been a part of every single College Football Playoff to date. Trevor Lawrence has two more seasons before he's draft eligible, Tua Tagovailoa one more. It got us thinking [...]
Barring more crazy movement the college football head coaching market is all dried up. When it's all said and done there will be 26 new head coaching positions for 2019, a turnover of a perfect 20% of the entire country. There remains one coach who was hired prior to 2000 (Iowa's Kirk Ferentz in 1999), [...]
The 2018 season was quietly one of the best in recent memory for college football uniforms. No, not because of Notre Dame's Yankee-inspired offering from the Syracuse game which we can confirm caused Under Armour stock to plunge 4%* for being so absurd. Sure, we're still in the throes of Black for Black's Sake, random [...]
Autry Denson will make one last run in South Bend - not on the hallowed grounds of Notre Dame Stadium this time, but down Angela Boulevard on his way to the airport. Notre Dame's all-time leading rusher and erstwhile running backs coach has accepted an offer to be the head coach of FCS Charleston-Southern, according [...]
Compare the first Reviewing the Redshirts post on the offense from last week with today's look at the defense and Notre Dame essentially saved eligibility on an entire recruiting class heading into 2019. While there were 13 players who took a redshirt on offense and just 7 featured today on defense one could argue there [...]
The Notre Dame 2019 football schedule looks more formidable than 2018's ended up being. Even so, and even acknowledging that spring ball and fall camp can change the picture substantially for everyone, it also looks manageable. Road dates at Georgia, Michigan, and Stanford loom large now. Virginia Tech could be in for a big rebound. [...]
There have been seasons when we've had fewer than 10 players featured in our Reviewing the Redshirts off-season series. Today, we will cover 13 players alone just on the offensive side of the ball. There's a little bit of everything here including, elite recruits, under the radar players, and some with much to prove early [...]
To me, Rocket Ismail is the embodiment of Notre Dame football. I was a bit too young to live through the Tim Brown era--and while I have vague memories of the 1988 National Championship--it had already been placed in my brain that winning was normal for the Fighting Irish. To be expected, right? Tuesday, January [...]
As the calendar has turned to 2019 and Notre Dame's season came to a grinding halt in Arlington we are looking ahead to the new football season. Ever forward. Since we're still awaiting news from several players and their decisions to return to South Bend this is basically an early version of the early 2019 [...]
Notre Dame was heavy underdogs in the Cotton Bowl and was supposed to feel disrespected. The game was supposed to be a tight contest turning on a couple breaks for the victors. Nothing of the sort happened as Clemson proved itself thoroughly superior as Notre Dame fell flat on its face again in a big [...]
Notre Dame heads to Arlington, Texas to participate in the Cotton Bowl for the 8th time in school history. It's a bowl game that was once steeped in a ton of history, went through a funk for nearly two decades, and has found a rebirth in the new College Football Playoff system. In 2010, the [...]
If you had 5 years in your office pool until the college football playoff expansion talk really started heating up please collect your prize now. The discussions have intensified this month with a handful of college leaders (most importantly conference commissioners) weighing in on expansion thus sending the media and college football fans abuzz. This [...]
They've been great on paper, but they haven't faced a top-10 opponent like this in 2018. That statement applies to both the Clemson offense and Notre Dame defense, as both will raise the difficult setting considerably in the Cotton Bowl. Why Clemson's efficiency is underrated and will test Clark Lea's "bend but don't break" defense, [...]
Notre Dame and Clemson will take the field in Arlington later this month in the Cotton Bowl college football semi-final. On January 7, 2013 Notre Dame suffered an embarrassing defeat at (then named) Sun Life Stadium while a year earlier on January 4, 2012 in the same stadium Clemson suffered their own shameful loss. Slumping [...]
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