Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Targeting Updates As previously mentioned on a recent Rambler, the rules surrounding targeting penalties will be changing in 2026. The Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee now decided that a player disqualified for targeting for the first time in [...]
Notre Dame opened up their 2026 spring practice workouts this past Friday on campus. Marcus Freeman has mentioned the delicate balance of preparing a team to play well straight out of the gate (especially coming off the beginning of 2025) but also not going too hard in the off-season. If there's a side in which [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Why Doesn't This Happen More Often? NC State (or should I say the NCAA) suspended Teddy Hoffmann for a positive PED test recently. This got me thinking, is it kind of shocking that we don't see more of these suspensions [...]
Notre Dame is set to take open up practice this Friday, March 20th to kick off the next edition of Irish spring football. With no post-season, it'll be 111 days since the team finished up the 2025 campaign at Stanford. There should be plenty of eyes watching and ears listening to Notre Dame during this [...]
Heading into the 2025 season defensive end was looking awfully enticing for Notre Dame. Big things were expected and the unit had a really nice mix of veterans and a couple young players who looked ready to blossom even further. Dare we say this was a disappointing year? Let's dig into things. Coming Back Notre [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-0) beat the #7 Ohio State Buckeyes (6-1), 9-8 this past Saturday. It was a hard fought defensive battle. It is a great sign that the highest scoring offense in the county can also engage in defensive challenges! Ohio State The headline from this match was Ricciardelli’s performance to [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Undefeated According to the Vegas oddsmakers in March, there are 6 teams at the FBS level who are currently favored in every regular season game in 2026. They include: Georgia Penn State North Dakota State Notre Dame Texas Tech Utah [...]
When was the last really good-to-great season from Notre Dame receivers? Notre Dame went into 2025 with 5 straight seasons without a 1,000-yard receiver and I don't think many Irish fans would've bet that milestone would be surpassed by anyone during the pre-season. Spoiler alert, it did not. But, did Notre Dame rely on its [...]
The cornerback room had quite the season in 2025 full of some incredibly high moments and frustrating stretches that we wish could've been avoided. In some ways, it was a season of chaos led by a veteran who played the most snaps. In other ways, it was yet another strong performance from the cornerback position [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Goodbye to Lou Legendary Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz passed away this past Wednesday. I wrote some thoughts about him HERE. What's your favorite win from these victories over top 5 finishing teams? Holtz was a college assistant for [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (4-0) beat the #14 Maryland Terrapins (1-3) 11-8 in College Park this past Saturday. Irish crush in College Park Domination is the only way this game can be described. While the final score ended up being a 3 point win, taking out a couple Maryland garbage time goals tells [...]
Former Notre Dame head football coach Lou Holtz passed away on March 4th just under 2 months after his 89th birthday. To say Holtz was a monumental figure in Notre Dame history would be an understatement. To date, the last Irish coach to win a National Championship and as such the last to have a [...]
Heading into the 2025 season we talked about worries with the defensive tackle position on defense and on offense it was the tight end position that looked on really shaky ground. The interior defensive line was able to work things out and even flourish a little bit, although this past fall was a little more [...]
Notre Dame football welcomed 6 players to the 4 days of the NFL Combine this past weekend in Indianapolis. It was a successful several days for the program, so much so that I wouldn't expect these high profile players to do a whole lot when the Pro Days kicks off in South Bend in the [...]
Our now #1/#1/#2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-0) convincingly beat the now #12 Georgetown Hoyas (1-1) 15-9 this past week. With the lack of a broadcast, we aren’t 100% sure how it went down, but a 6 goal win over a team who came into the match-up in the top 3 is nothing to complain [...]
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