Five Wide Fullbacks returns following the opening weekend of college football which saw our beloved Fighting Irish swat away the United States Naval Academy in Ireland. This week we are tackling injury reports in college football, how USC looked in their opener, new locations for an international Notre Dame game, the hypocrisy of football and [...]
Professional. Efficient. Clean. The opening test of the season wasn't an especially tough one, but Notre Dame still studied and passed with flying colors in a dominant win over Navy in Dublin. Sam Hartman led an near-perfect offensive attack that operated with extreme efficiency and distributed touches fairly evenly among the veteran and new faces [...]
The most prominent running play against the Midshipmen was, in my opinion, the Counter play. Counter is a gap blocking scheme play that utilizes misdirection and masses of humanity to create often devastating holes in the defensive structure. Many of Gerad Parker’s other runs seek to create cutback lanes for the running back by maintaining [...]
So, that was an interesting offseason huh? Even before the seeming dissolution of the Pac-Whatever as a power conference, I was thinking during this spring and summer about how to approach this column going into 2023. Based on seeing the title, you can see I decided to change the title from Group of 5 to [...]
The good vibes continue when Notre Dame plays Navy in Ireland. On Saturday evening in Dublin, the Fighting Irish cruised to an easy 42-3 victory over the Midshipmen in a game that was never in doubt. Notre Dame scored touchdowns on their first 5 offensive drives, never punted or turned the ball over, and immediately [...]
Sure, we could be measured in discussing today's 42-3 Notre Dame victory in Dublin, the opener of the most-hyped Irish team in some time. But what fun would that be? Why not dream big? All the usual caveats apply about a game against a much less talented opponent. Nevertheless, there was a whole heck of [...]
Why settle into a new football season at home against a tricky but familiar opponent when you can fly all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, earn less money, and make it more difficult on all the student-athletes? For the 96th time it's Notre Dame vs. Navy. Debt status = not repaid and we lace [...]
When I remember to do it, I like to rate the potential trap games on the Notre Dame schedule for our fair site on a scale of 1 to 10 Ackbars in honor of the greatest admiral in the history of the Rebel Alliance/Resistance. I failed to do it last year. Suffice it to say [...]
As we pass the hours and minutes until the 2023 season kicks off, it's time for a spin through the Notre Dame schedule of opponents for the upcoming year. Which opponents inspire the most fear for a loss this fall, what are the biggest question marks or swing factors, and what rationale has a chance [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Joe Alt (1st-team) and Benjamin Morrison (2nd-team) have been named to the AP Pre-season All-American team. Michigan is self-imposing a 3-game suspension for head coach Jim Harbaugh. USC is set to hire Washington's Jennifer Cohen as the school's next athletic director. Carson [...]
Yes, we are back in the saddle again. For me, this officially kicks off the college football season as we approach the first week of games. In a way, this is like a mini-college football season preview. This usually comes up at some point in this pre-season article or in the early weeks of the [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame has named Sam Hartman, Joe Alt, JD Bertrand, and Cam Hart as football captains for the 2023 season. The Irish open up the season ranked no. 13 in the pre-season AP Poll. Both tight end Kevin Bauman and defensive end [...]
I've done the math and on average just over 4 teams per season in college football start out in the AP pre-season Top 10 and do not finish inside the Top 10 over the last 5 seasons. I'm going to use these teams as my guide to figure out who will be the overrated teams [...]
Out of the 14 passes that Peacock graced us with a decent angle for, the most common concept by far was Snag (6/14). Snag is a passing concept that is used at pretty much all levels. Snag can be separated into two categories, two man Snag and three man Snag. The origin of this concept [...]
The official depth chart should be coming out soon as the 2023 Notre Dame football season begins soon and the Irish make preparations for an overseas battle against Navy. Today, we will take a look at the expected depth chart as well as other areas of focus and intrigue throughout the roster. As usual, it's [...]
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