Welcome back to another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. This was supposed to be the time for a playoff opponent preview to drop, and well that's not happening now is it? We've had plenty of time to have a good cry or two and now we'll dust ourselves off to some regularly scheduled off-season programming. [...]
Notre Dame's 2025 season was over in a flash and while we're not due a larger roster and recruiting update yet since our last article back in late October, it's time to turn the page and look to the 2026 season. Although there are no games to look forward to or bowl practices filling the [...]
My head has been spinning. On Sunday afternoon I was shocked, surprised, and then distraught. What the hell just happened? Wait, Notre Dame didn't even make the playoffs? Remember the Vegas odds!?? The expected trip to Norman?? The Irish should skip the bowl game now, it'll be a shell of a football team participating in [...]
Well, this article now has a different flavor since Notre Dame got left out of the 2025 College Football Playoffs. We were already supposed to know about the future of the College Football Playoff back on December 1st but disagreements about the format and proposals between the brokers involved led to a deadline extension. Now [...]
With the unfortunate news that came this morning in the CFP ranking show, our Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s season has come to a controversial end. While certainly we all have some hard feelings, and rightfully so, all is not lost. This is not an unknown feeling to the Irish community, with an almost identical situation [...]
It wasn't expected but always lurking in the background in the lead up to the final College Football Playoff Committee Rankings this Sunday afternoon. Notre Dame could have the rug pulled out from underneath them at the last moment. That's exactly what transpired as the Irish get left out of the 12-team playoff in favor [...]
Notre Dame will learn its fate for the playoffs in just a couple more days. But first, the cabal of television partners disguised as conference mates need to play their league championship games to provide more clarity to the 2025 season. The final CFP selection show will take place on Sunday, December 7th beginning at [...]
Great going, Good List! If you’ll recall from last week, we identified five games where the Irish could jump the potential loser. None of those games came to fruition. Fortunately, Ohio State finally exorcised its Michigan demons, ending the possibility of the Wolverines jumping into the CFP discussion. Worse still, the CFP committee bumped Alabama [...]
In the past, Notre Dame had lightly knocked on the door to a breakthrough recruiting class. Maybe a couple taps one year, or a solid early tap or two that never came good. As the 2025 regular season has concluded, the Fighting Irish have finally put together something within shouting distance of the best recruiting [...]
Just a few more games remain until Notre Dame finds out if their 10-2 record with 10 straight wins is enough to make the playoffs. The way things have shaken out lately it's going to make Irish fans sweat until the very end. That is, unless we receive some blessings during conference championship weekend. Here's [...]
I held on until the early 2nd quarter last night with Notre Dame leading 14-0 but about to punt from deep inside their own territory. Tucked in bed, I gave up and prioritized some shut eye. When I woke up and fired up the recording the first thing I watch is the most diabolical fake [...]
Today was far less about Notre Dame/Stanford than a bunch of other games with playoff implications for Notre Dame. Almost every single one went badly except for the Irish's game, an easy win that sent ND into whatever postseason it ends up in on a 10-game win streak, each of which with a 99.4% or [...]
I haven't written for this site in quite a while, but none of the other writers wanted to preview this game - can you blame them? - so I volunteered to step in. This is a silly game between an awful Stanford team without a real coach and a Notre Dame team coming off a [...]
It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when it's the regular season finale and a weekend full of great rivalry games only for Notre Dame to face a 4-7 Stanford team with an interim head coach. That this game kicks off at 10:30 PM ET is even more insane. As you'll see below, the [...]
At long last, the best college football week of the regular season has arrived! If I had told you on September 14th that Notre Dame would be on the right side of the CFP bubble at this juncture, you would surely take that series of events. But nothing is locked up yet! The Irish need [...]
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