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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 […]
Notre Dame Football Recruiting: 4-Star Chicago DL Brayden Parks commits to the Irish
Notre Dame is really stacking the talent along the defensive line with its 2027 football recruiting class. On Thursday, one of the big additions to that group finally made a public announcement. 4-Star defensive lineman Brayden Parks gave his commitment to Marcus Freeman, Charlie Partridge, and Notre Dame via an announcement ceremony on CBS Sports. […]
Which green will Notre Dame DL recruit pick today, Duck or Irish?
It’s Thursday, which is as good as any day to whip out a triple option. NOTRE DAME TARGET TO DECIDE TODAY One of the last of Notre Dame’s uncommitted prospects in the 2027 class is defensive tackle Brayden Parks. The Chicago native has dwindled his recruitment down to Notre Dame and the Oregon Ducks. This […]
How I feel about all 138 FBS programs going into the 2026 CFB season
The college football is a little more than a month away, and if we can look past all of the hair-pulling conversations about the NCAA, congress, the incredible arrogance of the SEC, and whatever other nonsense is out there… we should all be pretty excited. For me, it’s always been about more than Notre Dame […]
Halloween in Philly: The Night Notre Dame Survived
There are games you remember because everything went right. Notre Dame’s Halloween night trip to Philadelphia in 2015 was not one of them. The No. 9 Irish arrived at Lincoln Financial Field on October 31 carrying a 6-1 record and legitimate College Football Playoff aspirations. Waiting for them was one of the best stories of […]
Marcus Freeman sheds some light on Notre Dame’s injury mysteries
There’s lot’s going on, so let’s hit it with the speed option… THE SAGA OF CHARLES JAGUSAH It’s been a long journey with and for Notre Dame offensive lineman, Charles Jagusah. After spring ball there were still many questions surrounding Jagusah and his future as a player on this Notre Dame football team. Marcus Freeman […]
How would the SEC breaking away from the NCAA affect Notre Dame?
I thought this whole thing about the SEC breaking away from the NCAA was dying down, but ESPN’s Heather Dinich gave it more steam during a report on SportsCenter yesterday. Now, obviously, so much of this is posturing for political sake as schools and conferences are openly out there lobbying for congressional help. That’s probably […]
Notre Dame is locking in on one of its last recruiting targets of the 2027 cycle
Is Notre Dame’s football recruiting class for the 2027 cycle pretty good? Of course it is — where in the hell have you been? Notre Dame currently has the consensus No. 2 recruiting class in the country, and there’s still talk about the Irish eventually ending the cycle as the No. 1 class. Whether it’s […]
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