In less than two weeks, we will be watching real-life college football again. A while ago, I asked our writer's room about their favorite college football theme songs which immediately set off a wave of nostalgia. Since we are fast approaching the season, I thought it would be a fun exercise to look back on [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News The 2023 pre-season Coaches Poll has been released led by Georgia, Michigan, and Alabama. The Fighting Irish start at no. 13 nationally. The Notre Dame and Miami football game scheduled for 2024 has been moved to 2026. The Irish now have 1 [...]
College football begins this month, let us rejoice. During the off-season as I was working on the top 50 college football games to watch for 2023 it made me ponder the biggest story lines in what will be an end to an era for the sport. Now, I present the top 30 storylines to watch [...]
Have you ever looked at a snap and wondered why it was such a success or failure? In this series I hope to try to explain and give names to the common plays that a Notre Dame Tv (or Peacock I suppose) broadcast can easily decode. Let's first start with the most common runs that [...]
Well, recent events certainly changed the dynamic of this article which began several weeks ago. For the sake of this thorough study I won't be including any new Power 5 programs, and I'm not sure anyone would even include the likes of Cincinnati, BYU, or Houston in this discussion anyway. You could simply list the [...]
A 'rivalry forged in history' says the press release from Under Armour. On Sunday morning, the Ireland Collection was released for Notre Dame and Navy's game later this month in the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin. The release features alternate uniforms for both programs in addition to several t-shirts, hoodies, and polos commemorating the event. [...]
Are you excited about the upcoming college football season and what unfolds on the field? Well too damn bad, sit down and read about more conference realignment talk. Today on the latest edition of Five Wide Fullbacks it's all conference moving speculation. 1) If there is a breaking point for college sports--and college football fans [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Under Armour and Notre Dame have agreed to a 10-year contract extension worth $100 million. Notre Dame football unveiled new green uniforms on Monday to be worn at night against Ohio State. NBC has announced Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett as the [...]
Brian Newberry is the new head coach at Navy after being the defensive coordinator for the Middies since 2019. Their defense has been pretty good over his tenure but the more intriguing bit is that outside of a 5-year period when Paul Johnson left to coach Georgia Southern this will be the first time since [...]
Make it 3 players for the Notre Dame 2025 recruiting class. On Tuesday, Florida running back Justin Thurman committed to the Fighting Irish. The rising junior athlete is formerly from St. Louis and now attends Jesuit High School in Tampa. COMMITTED!!!#ThinkBig I #Golrish☘️#ALLGOLDEVERYTHING @Hayesfawcett3 @NDFootball @Marcus_Freeman1 @coachdmc @GeradParker1 @coachdrebrown & Chad Bowden @JesuitTigers_FB pic.twitter.com/9NdDsD7IGm — [...]
In the end it wasn't much of a surprise. After a brief dalliance with Nike (reportedly) the University of Notre Dame ran home to Under Armour. According to college football reporter Ross Dellenger, the Fighting Irish are set to re-sign another 10-year deal with the Baltimore-based apparel brand. Notre Dame is re-signing with Under Armour [...]
Maybe there is hope for Under Armour after all. On Sunday, Notre Dame sent out a teaser for the Ohio State game with the #IrishWearGreen hashtag alluding to some sort of Jerry Maguire movie reference and possibly new green jerseys. This Monday morning, the Fighting Irish definitely committed to the bit with a full comedic [...]
The College Football Playoff is set to expand to 12 teams in 2024, which will almost certainly result in a lot more regular-season outcomes being rendered pointless by a playoff rematch. To mark the occasion, we're revisiting a few prior times when a regular-season outcome - despite the college football conventional wisdom that "Every Game [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News One of Notre Dame's greatest players has left us as quarterback Johnny Lujack passed away at the age of 98 this week. We had rated Lujack as the no. 2 Fighting Irish player of all time in 2019 with this bio: Lujack [...]
Notre Dame opened up fall camp on Wednesday morning in the muggy but breezy South Bend sunshine as Marcus Freeman kicks off his second year in charge of the Fighting Irish. Here are all of the important updates from the workout done in helmets and shorts only. ***** Freeman immediately addressed the departure of strength [...]
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