Notre Dame released its week 2 depth chart Tuesday, ahead of Saturday’s 3:30 home opener against Rice. Injuries suffered during the Wisconsin game to a pair of defensive starters led to a few changes from last week’s. Jason Onye and Tae Johnson both started against Wisconsin. Neither finished the game and both are listed out this week. Onye with a left ankle and Johnson with a left foot. Freeman said on Tuesday that both will be out a couple of weeks, but both are expected back this season. Ti...
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Colin Cowherd is joined by Nick Wright to debate the biggest topics heading into the NFL season. They debate whether the Kansas City Chiefs or the Denver Broncos will win the AFC West, whether Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks are overlooked, and the Los Angeles Rams facing the San Francisco 49ers in Australia in Week 1. Then Colin discusses Lane Kiffin and LSU’s dominant win over Dabo Swinney and Clemson. Next, he argues that Notre Dame is the best college football team in the country and ...
Getty Images The industry consensus heading into the 2026 season was that there were seven teams in contention to win the national title. The best reflection of this belief was in the preseason AP Top 25. Not only did five different teams (Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Notre Dame and Miami) receive first-place votes, but when all the votes were tallied, No. 1 Ohio State was separated from No. 7 Miami by only 293 points. The gap between No. 7 Miami and No. 8 Texas A&M was 248 points. It turns ou...
Does anybody really care? Well since you asked, YES! Most college football fans do want to know what time it is. The real college football season has arrived and right off the bat, controversy. Michigan does the time warp. Notre Dame also got a helping hand from the referees. The SEC went 16-0. Even with […]
Irish Breakdown has taken a dive into the film of the Notre Dame win over Wisconsin and is ready to take a deeper look into the performance. In this Upon Further Review analysis we’ll recap the win, hand out game balls, talk turning points, key takeaways and revisit the keys to victory. Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and ...
Despite the loss, these three Wisconsin players still made a positive impact in the opening night loss to Notre Dame
One week of college football was enough for Joel Klatt to switch things around in his rankings. After his preseason No. 1 team, Oregon, was taken down to the wire against Boise State, Klatt has a new team at No. 1 in his top 10. And many teams made strong cases to be considered as the best program in the nation this weekend, with Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, LSU and Miami (Fla.) all making big statements in their season-opening wins. So, as we now have one week of college football in the books,...
With the Notre Dame football program earning a win in Week 1 against the Wisconsin Badgers on Sunday night, 41-13, there was some criticism about the team’s performance at halftime. As many people think the Notre Dame football team should’ve steamrolled Wisconsin throughout the game, head coach Marcus Freeman would give insight into the halftime […]
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College football is weirder than ever. It’s always been the weirdest sport in the country, and it’s why there are so many crazies out there that worship the game. Now with the transfer portal, it really does make these early season games tougher to predict. Notre Dame was a 20.5 point favorite going into the […]
Notre Dame got the benefit of a replay review to take over with a short field against Wisconsin late in the first quarter on Sunday night.
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FRISCO, Texas — Mel Kiper Jr. picked the Cincinnati Bengals to beat the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl LXI. The pick came at the end of a 10-prediction ESPN column on the 2027 NFL draft published Friday, paired with his choice of Oregon to beat Notre Dame for the College Football Playoff title. Dallas went […]
The Wisconsin Badgers will have a lot of eyeballs on them in Week 1, as they’re taking on each other in primetime on Sunday evening, with kickoff set for 6:30 p.m. at Lambeau Field on NBC. Now, the Badgers aren’t a part of the closest matchup on the slate. They’re currently 20.5-point underdogs against the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Desmond Howard picked Texas to win the national championship Saturday on ESPN’s College GameDay. The former Michigan receiver and 1991 Heisman Trophy winner made the pick during the show’s season-opening broadcast from the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La., when the desk was asked which two teams would play for the […]
The college football season starts this week, and national title talk is already turning heads. Brian Kelly is making those calls not from a sideline but from the studio now. His first big pick skipped both schools he used to coach. Kelly joined CBS Sports as a studio analyst after LSU fired him in October […]
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After winning three national titles in a row, the Big Ten is loaded and looking for a fourth.
Last year, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi famously talked about how their game against Notre Dame didn’t really mean anything because it wasn’t an ACC conference game. Never mind the fact that Pitt was ranked and in the hunt for a college football playoff spot — Narduzzi put up the front that the game didn’t […]
It was a night of debuts in Fargo, North Dakota, on Saturday. On the field, the North Dakota State Bison were playing in their first game at the FBS level, hosting the Jacksonville State Gamecocks at the FargoDome. Meanwhile, up in the CBS Sports Network broadcast booth, former Notre Dame and LSU coach Brian Kelly…
The time has finally come. Notre Dame is about to step into game week with a matchup against the Wisconsin Badgers in Lambeau Field, and they just publicly announced their captains for the 2026 college football season. Quarterback CJ Carr #13 CAPTAINLinebacker Drayk Bowen #34 CAPTAINSafety Adon Shuler #8 CAPTAINWide Receiver Jordan Faison #6 CAPTAIN […]
ESPN's FPI crunched the numbers on Notre Dame's week-by-week ledger and gave its indication that it might be a special season.
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Notre Dame is not only a popular pick to win a National Championship in the new college football season, but […]
The best option is a triple option — however it’s lined up. HOW IS NOTRE DAME OVERRATED WITH ALL OF THIS TALENT? As the offseason/preseason comes to an end, Notre Dame is still being catcalled by idiot fan here and idiot fan there. The word “overrated” is a word consistently used by those that just […]
One of the strangest parts of the 2025 college football season for Notre Dame was their kicking situation (among a long list of strangeness). The Irish appear to have corrected the problem with transfer Spencer Porath, so today, let’s be grateful for kickers.
Expectations are through the roof for Notre Dame football in 2026. Rece Davis recently declared that Notre Dame is the favorite to win the national championship. After missing the College Football Playoffs in 2025, the team is set for a run in 2026. Now, more experts are also selecting Notre Dame to win it all, […]
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