2019 Playoff Big Board: Conference Championship Week
See? I told you Alabama wasn’t going to be in the playoff... The board cleared up considerably this week, and with only a handful of true contenders left we can now get a lot more [...]
Stanford Review: Feeling Fine After Visiting the Farm
Do we always take away too much from how a football game starts? I think for the most part it matters a lot whether that's fair I cannot say. On Saturday afternoon Pacific time--in a [...]
18S Top 20: The Final Countdown
One more full regular season week of college football, dear friends. As the Irish prepare to win in Palo Alto for the first time in ages as heavy favorites they will be taking a back [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Boston College
A dominant defensive effort led Notre Dame to a 40-7 route of Boston College that could have been an even bigger blowout on senior day. The Irish offense created nine scoring chances in ten drives [...]
2019 Playoff Big Board: Week 14
The Pac 12 is dangerously close to being eliminated after a momentous upset, and the Big 12 is alive thanks to a witches' brew of good fortune and home cooking. It's November, folks. Time to [...]
5 Thoughts on the 2020 Football Schedule
Is anyone interested in an early look at the 2020 schedule? As the current season is winding down we have a good idea of the shape and feel of next year's schedule already. Here are [...]
Boston College Review: The Streak Continues Until 2020
The home winning streak continues through another off-season. The Irish secured their 18th straight victory in South Bend and will have to wait until September 12, 2020 when Arkansas (under a new head coach, prayers [...]
Boston College Preview: Dude, Where’s My Rivalry?
I was born and raised in a small town an hour south of Boston. My first trip to Notre Dame was the 1999 game vs Boston College. I was a naive nine-year-old. I didn't expect [...]
18S Top 20 Poll: More Undefeated Teams Fall
We are one step closer to the Holy Grail, and with losses to Baylor and Minnesota, now left with just 3 undefeated teams in college football. It feels like we are pretty close to these [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Navy
The Irish checked all the boxes for a perfect game against Navy - scoring every possession early, forcing turnovers and passing downs, and limiting first down yardage. Second-half garbage time stats obscure in the final [...]
2019 Playoff Big Board: Week 13
We got one moderate upset (is it really an upset if the winning, lower-ranked team was favored?) and were sooooo close to a big one, but you know what they say about being close - [...]
Week 12 Win Probability Matrix Update
Well... That was fun. Remember that all advanced stats models include adjustments for garbage time, which is defined differently in each model but basically means being up by enough that both teams will change the [...]
Navy Review: Cruising Through Calm Waters
I don't know why anyone was worried about winning this game. Jokes aside, this is the type of performance that will make people think the Irish are going to blow Navy out for the next [...]
Navy Preview: Turning the Boat Around
Saddle up for the 93rd meeting between Notre Dame and the United States Naval Academy, a yearly tradition stretching back to the Knute Rockne days in 1927. Have you heard? Navy football is in the [...]
2019 Playoff Big Board: Week 12
Does LSU's resounding win over Alabama truly signal the end of a dynasty, as ESPN's Ivan Maisel wrote? That feels a little hyperbolic for a Tide team that's still averaging almost a 30 point margin [...]
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