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Notre Dame might be healthier going into fall camp than you think
Marcus Freeman held a press conference on Tuesday to kick off the fall camp season for Notre Dame Football. To be honest… the injury list was the only thing I was interested in at this moment. Sure, I enjoyed watching Freeman have some fun about the haircuts and the new building, but the amount of […]
Notre Dame to start the CFB season ranked No. 5 in the Coaches Poll
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will start the college football season ranked inside the top five in the Coaches Poll which was just released on Tuesday. The Irish received 5 first place votes. Indiana received 14 first place votes but is behind Notre Dame at No. 6. Notre Dame opponents: Miami Hurricanes No. 7BYU Cougars […]
Welcome to the 139th season of Notre Dame Football
We’ve finally made it. We’ve finally arrived at the start of the Notre Dame Football season — the 139th in history. Now, I know you may think I’m jumping the gun here with the season opening game still a month away, but that would be incredibly basic. Fall camp is here, and that means the […]
Conference Landscape for Notre Dame’s 2026-27 CFB Opponents
August is upon us and it’s finally time to start knocking the cobwebs off of the CFB analytics machine. We’re still a month out from the team’s season opener and one of the biggest factors that will influence this year’s action will be the persistent hellscape of CFB conference realignment. While Notre Dame continues to […]
Indiana cancels football series against Notre Dame because of course…
The news about Notre Dame and USC renewing the Jeweled Shillelagh rivalry is great for college football. Shortly after, the news about Indiana canceling its upcoming series against Notre Dame was not. This shouldn’t come as a big shock to anyone that follows either program. In fact, I pretty much predicted this in a post […]
Notre Dame and USC will renew the rivalry in 2030
If you’re a college football fan, this is great news. Notre Dame and USC have come to an agreement to continue the rivalry from 2030-2033 — although with much different game dates than the two have historically played. From the ND press release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame football program announced […]
Ready to put the Notre Dame offseason into a storage bin
If you ever have an option — make sure it’s a triple. The college football offseason has been long and a little weird (as all good CFB offseasons generally are). For Notre Dame football fans, the massive gap from the end of the Stanford game to now has seemed like the longest journey, and we […]
Notre Dame’s jaw-dropping new football facility is further proof that the Irish are ALL IN
Last week Notre Dame cracked open the doors to its new Shields Family Hall where all football operations will now reside. We got the first glimpses of the locker room and a tatse of what this Notre Dame Football program will now have at its disposal moving forward. On Friday… Notre Dame kicked those doors […]
Notre Dame is the best of the top 10
This isn’t word salad or verbal vomit, this Notre Dame Football team is the best of the top 10. Recently, On3 via Crain and Cone released their projections for the Top Ten Offenses and Top Ten Defenses in college football. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish came in at No. 2 on both lists. So let’s […]
Old Notre Dame Football Photos: Cheerleaders, leprechauns, and band stuff
Some of the best things about college football have nothing to do with the actual game itself. This week, in preparation for the season, I’m paying homage to some of the really good stuff… cheerleaders, mascots, and the band.
These are the official GREEN OUT uniforms for Notre Dame Football
We told/warned all of you about two weeks ago… Notre Dame is making a change to its green jerseys for this season. For the Irish Wear Green game this season against the Stanford Cardinal, Notre Dame is taking off the interlocking ND monogram from the sleeves, and replacing them with the football alternate logo of […]
Five predictions for Notre Dame Football’s fall camp
We’re almost there. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team starts fall camp in just days, and there are an incredible amount of expectations for this season under Marcus Freeman. We can certainly set expectations, but predicting what happens is an entirely different animal — but let’s try to wrestle that animal a bit. Here […]
Will Indiana back out of playing Notre Dame in the 2030 and 2031 CFB seasons?
Back in 2021, Notre Dame announced a home and home football series against the Indiana Hoosiers. While this announcement obviously came before Indiana’s meteoric rise in college football, fans were still excited to have this game on the books. Despite being in-state, Notre Dame and Indiana have only played 30 times with the last time […]
Notre Dame Football Talking Points
I rolled up to a high school football camp yesterday and I whispered into the universe… run the triple option. People that know me know about my love/hate relationship with Aaron Sorkin. So… I’m stealing a title that he’s used for multiple episodes of his television shows; Talking Points. It just seems to be the […]
Notre Dame Football: Defending Something Bigger
Winning a national championship changes things. For Notre Dame, the 1988 season had been about climbing back to the top of college football. The Irish went undefeated, beat No. 1 Miami in one of the most memorable games in program history, and finished the job against West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl to claim their […]
What Happened the Last Time Notre Dame Played Boston College?
The final quarter of Notre Dame’s 2026 season opens with the revival of a rivalry statistically shown to be the most one-sided beef in all of college football. You heard that mournful trumpet sound correctly – Fredo is coming back to town. I poke fun here not out of disdain for Boston College, a school […]
Notre Dame Football: Pre-Fall Camp Defensive Roster Breakdown
We talked about offense heading into camp. Defense time. Defensive Interior Projected Starters: Tionne Gray, Frances Brewu Projected Backups: Jason Onye, Elijah Hughes Another year, another new set of starting defensive tackles for Notre Dame. Gabriel Rubio is off to the NFL and Donovan Hinish was forced to medically retire. Enter Gray and Brewu by way […]
Notre Dame adds a sponsor patch to its football jerseys
I was just minutes away from writing a fun article entitled, “What if Notre Dame put a Goldman Sachs patch in the uniform?“ and then I saw the news break that Notre Dame IS putting a sponsor patch on its football uniforms. Notre Dame isn’t the only big time football program to announce a uniform […]
Football conferences are stupid and apparently only Notre Dame understands this
The college football season, postseason, offseason, and preseason is filled with many wonderful conversations — but just about any talk concerning conferences is stupid. The start of the conversations might be in good faith (might be), but they eventually devolve into nonsense. The Great CFB Conference Realignment of the 2010’s was one of the more […]
Does Notre Dame need better lodging for football fans coming to the game?
The Notre Dame football program is a national brand — right? We take great pride in stating that fact when we talk about football independence from conferences, recruiting, and its place in college football. The “Notre Dame game” in South Bend is a bucket list item for many CFB fans once they have a game […]
Notre Dame Football Recruiting: 5-Star EDGE Darieon Prescott commits to the Irish
Notre Dame got the good news for the future that they were looking for involving the 2028 football recruiting class. On Monday, 5-Star EDGE Darieon Prescott gave his public commitment to Marcus Freeman, Charlie Partridge, and the 2028 Notre Dame football recruiting class. The 6’4” 255 pound defensive end from Bolingbrook High School in Bolingbrook, […]
Notre Dame Football: Pre-Fall Camp Offensive Roster Breakdown
The Odyssey was just released. A new Spider-Man releases this week. Notre Dame Football’s fall camp starts in a week. I just got a cool hoodie delivered. What a time to be alive. In anticipation of the pre-season, here’s a breakdown of Notre Dame’s offensive roster, with the defense to follow. Quarterback Starter: CJ Carr Projected Backup: Who […]
Notre Dame flexes hard with its new locker room and performance center
Notre Dame is close to completely opening its new Jack and Kathy Shields Family Hall, and we’ve been shown glimpses of what this thing is… and it’s one billion percent incredible. The most recent glimpse is the unveiling of the Keith and Janet Sherin Locker Room and the Pat and Jana Eilers Performance Center. The […]
Five Old Notre Dame Football Photos for a Friday: The Great Irish Comeback vs USC
1999 was a wild year for Notre Dame football — mostly because the Irish had a terrible season. they started 1-3 in their first four games and finished 0-4 in their last 4 games. Sandwiched in between were some insane wins. The Irish had two incredible comeback wins at home against Oklahoma and USC, and […]
The way Texas isn’t afraid of saying they’re afraid of Notre Dame is so low T
Is this where we are in 2026? I know there is a culture war raging across the United States, but we’re talking about Texas here — TEXAS. But let’s back up for a second… The college football playoff is the all consuming driver in the sport now. There’s no way around it, and we have […]
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