For the first time this season, Notre Dame dominated an opponent in virtually every category of advanced stats. The Irish were perfect in the red zone leaning on a spread run game, and had the 3rd highest efficiency advantage of any P5 vs P5 game last week. Before garbage time Notre Dame out-gained Wake Forest [...]
From the 1925 Rose Bowl to Charlie Weis's penultimate season in 2008, Notre Dame and Stanford met 23 times. Notre Dame won 17 of those games, usually in resounding fashion; the average Irish win featured an 18.5 point scoring margin. Included in that 17-6 record is a seven game win streak from 2002 to 2008. [...]
The rankings are beginning to shake up after an eventful week 4 although the top teams held off a couple upsets to keep things relatively stable inside the Top 10. At some point, the national favorites have to lose, right? One of Notre Dame's upcoming opponents suffered one of the worst upsets of the year [...]
Notre Dame's offense needed a spark on Saturday afternoon and received a jolt of TNT via the controversial insertion of redshirt sophomore quarterback Ian Book. While keeping Brandon Wimbush on the bench the Irish offense exploded for one of the best road game performances in recent years, perhaps recasting the future of the offense as [...]
Notre Dame sits at 3-0 and ranked in the top ten this week. You would think that's a good place to be, but many Irish fans understandably grumbled about the offense's performance to date. Now it looks like that performance might have the coaching staff grumbling too; word leaked out yesterday via multiple outlets that [...]
Notre Dame's most friendly new ACC brethren is back on the schedule once again. The Irish face Wake Forest for the 5th time in 8 years after previously spending over 100 years never having faced the Demon Deacons. Due to weird scheduling quirks this will break up 3 straight games in the series that took [...]
S&P+ gave Vanderbilt a 56% post-game win probability based on an advantage in yards per play, more scoring opportunities, and perceived poor turnover luck. An efficiency edge and slightly better performance converting scoring opportunities (even though it was ugly) saved Notre Dame is this one. Confused? Check out this advanced stats glossary. Efficiency Vanderbilt’s defense is [...]
Week three is in the books and we remain heavily blue-blood at the top of the polls. We were treated to a couple really fun ranked matchups that debuts a couple of new teams in the Top 5 of our rankings. Let's get to a recap of this past week and a look forward to [...]
Notre Dame continues to search for something on offense. An identity perhaps. A game-breaker for sure. More consistency no doubt. For the third straight week another strong defensive effort began bursting at the seams as the Fighting Irish sweat out a comeback by an opponent that ultimately fell short for the bad guys. It's a [...]
The talk about Notre Dame going into the 2018 season at least partially revolved around whether the defense might be as talented as the 2012 unit that propelled the Irish to a 12-0 regular season. Through three games, we don't have a clear answer on that question, but the season as a whole sure seems [...]
Note the 2:30 eastern start time this week, friends. A little bit of the SEC is coming to South Bend this weekend. I do stress a little bit. The Vanderbilt Commodores return to Notre Dame for the first time since 1995 when the Irish won 41-0 while opening the following season in Nashville in a [...]
Week two is in the books and a pair of 2017's best teams came away with big road victories to cement their early claim as the best teams of 2018. If you're waiting for a shake-up at the top of the polls it may be a while. 18 Stripes Top 20 Poll RANK TEAM [...]
Our eyes told us it was ugly, and the advanced stats confirm that and then some. The Ball State defense put up a havoc rate and run stuff rate against Notre Dame that would have been best in the nation last year! The Irish also struggled to capitalize on scoring opportunities, and were extremely inefficient [...]
Kendall Abdur-Rahman boosted Notre Dame's 2019 offensive skill position group when he announced for the Irish today. The tea leaves suggested Notre Dame made a big move for the 6'1", 180-pound Illinois product on his official visit for the Michigan game; today, it seems like those suggestions were dead on. Abdur-Rahman keeps things extremely close [...]
A classic let down felt entirely normal this week but also so blatantly obvious that any more than a brief discussion in a game preview was worth the time. Anyway, a let down was supposed to be maybe a 24-point win not what transpired before our eyes in South Bend this Saturday. Notre Dame looked [...]
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