Confession time; when I was growing up I was immensely more into college basketball than college football. That allure almost certainly came from March Madness and monitoring those games during the day when I went to school (if I did go to school that day). However, I was always a football fan deep down. Between [...]
We are set to conclude the 8th edition of the College Football Playoffs this Monday night live from Indianapolis as the powers-that-be finally decided a place outside of a warm weather region could host the National Championship Game. Too bad Notre Dame couldn't have made the trip down south in their own state for this [...]
A low bar, but we've notched the greatest Saturday of the Freeman Era and it's not even lunchtime. Two big decisions dropped in favor of ND this morning. Northwestern safety Brandon Joseph, a 2020 Consensus All-American, announced he'd be enrolling at ND as a graduate transfer. Holy terror edge rusher (and sometimes quizzical middle-linebacker) Isaiah [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. This off-season I'm changing up our topics a little bit. Top News Head coaches all over the land are trying to scramble their bag men and LLC's to see if they can land rising sophomore quarterback Caleb Williams who announced he's entering the Transfer [...]
What a year. There was a whole lot of weirdness, preseason top ten teams falling on their faces repeatedly, lots of the elite suddenly looking vulnerable, the SEC starting bowl season 1-5... Did you know that this is the first playoff with none of Ohio State, Clemson, or Oklahoma? It's been running since 2014 and [...]
John Madden passed away on December 28th at the age of 85 leaving behind of the most memorable and lasting impacts on football in American history. Although he stopped coaching in the NFL (1978) before I was born, retired from the television booth well over 10 years ago, and hadn't been in the spotlight much [...]
You can't keep your boy down. After mulling over taking the week off to let the Fiesta Bowl loss simmer before coming back to writing I'm here to offer some brief thoughts on the 2022 depth chart. Typically, this would be one of if not the longest articles of the year. This time around, I'm [...]
When the score reached 14-0 in favor of Notre Dame I quite literally bounded to the bathroom past the rest of my family working on a jigsaw puzzle in the nearby room. My instinct was to announce how awesome Notre Dame looked under Marcus Freeman when, as I worked my way toward them, I checked [...]
If Notre Dame couldn't get this one, against this team, with the momentum they had coming in, then it's easy to self-flagellate and think the Irish are just never going to win one of these things. Notre Dame lost the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State 37-35, not scoring the entire second half until it was [...]
Notre Dame's 2023 class kept rolling, and in unprecedented fashion, when elite safety Peyton Bowen announced his commitment to the Irish at his high school today. Bowen is currently the #59 overall recruit in the 247 Composite rankings, and based on his junior film could well end up as a five star. He's the fourth [...]
This Saturday afternoon Notre Dame will be playing in its 26th major bowl game (including the 2012 BCS National Championship Game) and is making its 6th appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. After winning their first Fiesta Bowl game back in 1988 to clinch the school's last National Championship, the Irish have lost their last 4 [...]
I started the bones of this article back in November a few days after Lincoln Riley packed his bags for USC and then Brian Kelly decided Baton Rouge needed to be his new home so this news with the Trojans fell off the map for a while. Before we get started, dear USC, are you [...]
The 2022 recruiting cycle isn't quite over yet as the All-Star games coming up this weekend will bring us a batch of more commitments that will more or less close the door on the top of the national rankings. It's been a weird year full of massive coaching turnover, the top recruit shocking the entire [...]
Welcome back to America's greatest question and answer segment Five Wide Fullbacks. This week we'll tackle those silly kids opting out of bowl games, plus the possible return of a curmudgeon-y assistant coach, Marcus Freeman's sense of style, a trade-off at wide receiver, and breaking NCAA passing records. 1) More and more players are deciding [...]
Like many of you I felt an unease as Michigan put together a decent season. Used to seeing Harbaugh's teams sulk and give up every time the slightest adversity presented itself in a road game, I figured Wisconsin would smash them, they didn't. Like clockwork, they dropped a winnable game at MSU, which I figured [...]
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